AAMI Embalming Chapter 5 Test Questions with Correct Answers

AAMI Embalming Chapter 5 Test Questions with Correct Answers moribund - Answer-dying Agonal Period - Answer-Period immediately before death. Agonal Algor - Answer-cooling of the body before death Agonal Fever - Answer-increase in body temperature immediately before death agonal hypostasis - Answer-Settling of blood into the dependent tissues BEFORE death. due to the slowing of circulation, prior to death Agonal Coagulation - Answer-formed elements of the blood clot and congeal as a person is dying agonal capillary expansion - Answer-pores in capillary walls open before death Agonal Edema - Answer-escape of blood serum from an intravascular to an extravascular location immediately before death Agonal Dehydration - Answer-the loss of moisture from the living body during the agonal state colon - Answer-where most putrefactive bacteria come from as they relocate Algor Mortis - Answer-Post-mortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature. hypostasis - Answer-the PROCESS of blood settling to dependent parts of the body contact pallor - Answer-Areas where blood movement or gravitation has been inhibited due to contact with the surface upon which the body rests factors that thin blood after death - Answer-refrigeration, medication, disease process factors that thicken blood after death - Answer-heat, medication, disease process thinned blood - Answer-speeds up hypostasis thickened blood - Answer-slows down hypostasis livor mortis - Answer-the intravascular discoloration that occurs as a RESULT of hypostasis. injection and venous drainage - Answer-removal of livor mortis 1 to 2 hours after death - Answer-livor mortis appears decreased livor mortis due to - Answer-thicker blood carbon monoxide poisoning causes - Answer-intense livor mortis because blood does not coagulate dehydration - Answer-loss of moisture from the body tissues by surface evaporation. desiccation - Answer-the process of drying out, extreme dehydration translocation of microorganisms - Answer-microbes have been found in cerebrospinal fluid, heart, lungs, and urinary bladder within 4 to 6 hours after death Clostridium perfringens - Answer-gas producing, anaerobic bacteria three physical postmortem changes - Answer-algor mortis, hypostasis, livor mortis two phases of metabllism - Answer-anabolism and catabolism anabolism - Answer-building phase, requires energy catabolism - Answer-breakdown phase, releases energy Postmortem Caloricity - Answer-the rise in temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism Carbohydrates - Answer-first biochemical in the body to break down first postmortem shift in PH - Answer-the body becomes acidic due to lactic acid buildup (as low as 5.5) time it takes for PH to drop into the acid range - Answer-three hours after death second postmortem shift in PH - Answer-the body breaks down PROTEINS and becomes more alkaline Body PH during advanced decomposition - Answer-alkaline rigor mortis - Answer-naturally occurring post mortem stiffness of the body primary flacidity - Answer-muscle relaxation at the time of death; best conditions for embalming