AAMI PRINCIPLES OF EMBALMING COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE TESTED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

AAMI PRINCIPLES OF EMBALMING
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE TESTED
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

●● Necrosis is:
Answer: death of tissue


●● A quick drench shower must be provided if:
Answer: exposure to formaldehyde is present


●● T/F A copy of the regulatory text for the Bloodborne Pathogens Rule
must be readily available and accessible to employees at all times.
Answer: True


●● The Jivaro Indians of Ecuador:
Answer: preserved heads by shrinking them


●● First major figure to provide embalming instruction for undertakers
in the U.S.:
Answer:

, ●● ___________ refers to the physiologic, or natural, death of body
cells as they complete their life cycles.
Answer: Necrobiosis


●● An example of the pathological death of body cells as a result of
disease processes is called:
Answer:


●● Desquamation is a:
Answer: sign of decomposition


●● The antemortem settling of blood in dependent tissues:
Answer: agonal hypostasis


●● Auguste Renouard:
Answer: author of The Undertaker's Manual, the first book published
specifically as an embalming textbook in the United States.


●● Used to aspirate blood and arterial fluid from the open cavity of the
autopsied body:
Answer: autopsy aspirator


●● The cooling of the body prior to death