Embalming Practice Test Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Continuous drainage during injection is called: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- concurrent
The absence of metabolism and a total lack of response to stimuli is: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- catelepsy
Which of the following IS an extrinsic factor in regards to an embalming analysis: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Atmospheric conditions
The muscular suture is also known as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- frenulum - septal suture
The typical post-mortem blood clot is correctly referred to as which of the following: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chicken fat clot
When arteriosclerosis is present, the artery generally best suited for injection of the artery
fluid would be the: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- common carotid
That person who was involved in the historical development of embalming, promoted
embalming for sanitary purposes, and also translated the textbook "History of Embalming"
into English, was: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Richard Harlan
Father of embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ruysch
Wrote the embalming text "History of Embalming" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gannal
Discovered capillary circulation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Malpighi
Discovered formaldehyde - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Butlerov
, Father of American embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Holmes
The procedure of disinfection which is performed prior to the embalming process is referred
to as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- primary disinfection
That method of injection and drainage in which an amount of arterial fluid is injected and
then drainage allowed to flow for a period of time, each one separately, is which of the
following methods: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- alternate
Oxidation of food products in the tissues causes: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- postmortem
caloricity
Stiffening of the muscles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rigor Mortis
Cooling of the body to its surrounding environment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Algor
Mortis
Decomposition of fats - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lipolysis
Rise in body temperature after death - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Post mortem caloricity
Reddish blue discoloration - post mortem stain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Livor mortis
Which of the following equipment/instruments would NOT be used in aspirating remains: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aneurysm hook
A method of generating pressure for the injection of arterial fluid into a dead human body is
the use of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mechanical pump
The physical evacuation of various foreign materials from any body orifice, due to a variety
of pressures, is commonly referred to as which of the following: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
purge
and CORRECT Answers
Continuous drainage during injection is called: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- concurrent
The absence of metabolism and a total lack of response to stimuli is: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- catelepsy
Which of the following IS an extrinsic factor in regards to an embalming analysis: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Atmospheric conditions
The muscular suture is also known as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- frenulum - septal suture
The typical post-mortem blood clot is correctly referred to as which of the following: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chicken fat clot
When arteriosclerosis is present, the artery generally best suited for injection of the artery
fluid would be the: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- common carotid
That person who was involved in the historical development of embalming, promoted
embalming for sanitary purposes, and also translated the textbook "History of Embalming"
into English, was: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Richard Harlan
Father of embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ruysch
Wrote the embalming text "History of Embalming" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Gannal
Discovered capillary circulation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Malpighi
Discovered formaldehyde - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Butlerov
, Father of American embalming - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Holmes
The procedure of disinfection which is performed prior to the embalming process is referred
to as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- primary disinfection
That method of injection and drainage in which an amount of arterial fluid is injected and
then drainage allowed to flow for a period of time, each one separately, is which of the
following methods: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- alternate
Oxidation of food products in the tissues causes: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- postmortem
caloricity
Stiffening of the muscles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rigor Mortis
Cooling of the body to its surrounding environment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Algor
Mortis
Decomposition of fats - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lipolysis
Rise in body temperature after death - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Post mortem caloricity
Reddish blue discoloration - post mortem stain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Livor mortis
Which of the following equipment/instruments would NOT be used in aspirating remains: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aneurysm hook
A method of generating pressure for the injection of arterial fluid into a dead human body is
the use of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- mechanical pump
The physical evacuation of various foreign materials from any body orifice, due to a variety
of pressures, is commonly referred to as which of the following: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
purge
