Embalming Practice Test UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Agonal Fever - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the increase in body temperature immediately
before death.
Intermittent (Restricted) Drainage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a method of drainage in
which the drainage is stopped at intervals while injection continues.
Lumen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the cavity or opening of a vein, artery, or intestine is
referred to as.
Lysosome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an organelle that exists within a cell, but separate
from the cell; contains hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins and certain
carbohydrates.
Temporary Preservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The science of treating the voy
chemically so as temporarily inhibit decomposition defines.
Primary Dilution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the dilution attained as the embalming
solution is mixed in the embalming machine.
Solvent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the liquid holding another substance in solution
Restricted Cervical Drainage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a method of injection wherein
both common carotid arteries are raised.
Universal Precautions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an approach to infection control which
holds that all human blood and body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious for HIV,
HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens.
Surface Embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the direct contract of body tissues with
embalming chemicals; a type of embalming.
,Buffers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An embalming chemical which affects the stabilization
of the acid-base balance within embalming solutions and in the tissued describes.
Decomposition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is simply separation of compounds into simpler
substances by action of microbial and/or autolytic enzymes.
Aneurysm Hook - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an embalming instrument that is used for
blunt dissection and in raising vessels.
Formaldehyde - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a colorless, strong smelling gas that when used
in a solution is a powerful preservative and disinfectant.
Humectant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a chemical that increases the ability of embalmed
tissue to etain moisture.
Enzyme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an organic catalyst produced by living cells and
capable of autolytic decomposition.
Fermentation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bacterial decomposition of carbohydrates is.
Necrosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a pathological death of a tissue still a part of the
living organisms.
Hypostasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the setting of blood and/or other fluids to
dependent portions of the body.
Imbibition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is absorption of the fluid portion of the blood by the
tissues after death resulting in postmortem edema.
Cavity Embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the direct treatment other than arterial
embalming of the contents of the body cavities and the lumen of the hollow viscera.
, Postmortem Stain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an extravascular blood discoloration which
results from hemolysis.
Anatomical Position - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The body is erect, feet together, palms
facing forward, and thumbs are pointed away from the body describes the.
Right Common Carotid - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Begins at the level of the
sternoclavicular articulation and terminates at the level of the superior border of the thyroid
cartilage.
Femoral Artery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Begins at a point posterior to the center of the
inguinal ligament and terminates at the opening in the adductor magnus muscle.
D - Distribution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The movement of arterial solution from the
point of injection throughout the vascular system and into the capillaries is termed.
C - One Point - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Injection and drainage from the same location is
called.
D - Humectants - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- This chemical is described as having a coating
action; they wrap around the formaldehyde molecule and thus keep it from making direct
contact with the albuminous material until the tissues are thoroughly saturated with
preservative solution.
C - Vermin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which of the following is NOT an intrinsic body
condition.
B - Livor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which one of the following is a postmortem
physical change.
Index - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the amount of formaldehyde measured in grams,
dissolved in 100 mls of water.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Agonal Fever - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the increase in body temperature immediately
before death.
Intermittent (Restricted) Drainage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a method of drainage in
which the drainage is stopped at intervals while injection continues.
Lumen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the cavity or opening of a vein, artery, or intestine is
referred to as.
Lysosome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an organelle that exists within a cell, but separate
from the cell; contains hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins and certain
carbohydrates.
Temporary Preservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The science of treating the voy
chemically so as temporarily inhibit decomposition defines.
Primary Dilution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the dilution attained as the embalming
solution is mixed in the embalming machine.
Solvent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the liquid holding another substance in solution
Restricted Cervical Drainage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a method of injection wherein
both common carotid arteries are raised.
Universal Precautions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an approach to infection control which
holds that all human blood and body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious for HIV,
HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens.
Surface Embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the direct contract of body tissues with
embalming chemicals; a type of embalming.
,Buffers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An embalming chemical which affects the stabilization
of the acid-base balance within embalming solutions and in the tissued describes.
Decomposition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is simply separation of compounds into simpler
substances by action of microbial and/or autolytic enzymes.
Aneurysm Hook - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an embalming instrument that is used for
blunt dissection and in raising vessels.
Formaldehyde - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a colorless, strong smelling gas that when used
in a solution is a powerful preservative and disinfectant.
Humectant - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a chemical that increases the ability of embalmed
tissue to etain moisture.
Enzyme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an organic catalyst produced by living cells and
capable of autolytic decomposition.
Fermentation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bacterial decomposition of carbohydrates is.
Necrosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is a pathological death of a tissue still a part of the
living organisms.
Hypostasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the setting of blood and/or other fluids to
dependent portions of the body.
Imbibition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is absorption of the fluid portion of the blood by the
tissues after death resulting in postmortem edema.
Cavity Embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the direct treatment other than arterial
embalming of the contents of the body cavities and the lumen of the hollow viscera.
, Postmortem Stain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is an extravascular blood discoloration which
results from hemolysis.
Anatomical Position - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The body is erect, feet together, palms
facing forward, and thumbs are pointed away from the body describes the.
Right Common Carotid - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Begins at the level of the
sternoclavicular articulation and terminates at the level of the superior border of the thyroid
cartilage.
Femoral Artery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Begins at a point posterior to the center of the
inguinal ligament and terminates at the opening in the adductor magnus muscle.
D - Distribution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The movement of arterial solution from the
point of injection throughout the vascular system and into the capillaries is termed.
C - One Point - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Injection and drainage from the same location is
called.
D - Humectants - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- This chemical is described as having a coating
action; they wrap around the formaldehyde molecule and thus keep it from making direct
contact with the albuminous material until the tissues are thoroughly saturated with
preservative solution.
C - Vermin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which of the following is NOT an intrinsic body
condition.
B - Livor Mortis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Which one of the following is a postmortem
physical change.
Index - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is the amount of formaldehyde measured in grams,
dissolved in 100 mls of water.
