An embalming instrument used for blunt dissection and in raising vessels; has an eye in the hook position of the instrument for placing ligatures around the vessels.
What is an Aneurysm Hook?
100
Condition in which the manifestations of life are feebly maintained.
What is Apparent Death?
100
Ingredient of embalming fluids that retards the natural postmortem tendency of blood to become more viscous or prevents adverse reactions between blood and other embalming chemicals.
What are Anticoagulant Fluids?
100
The body is erect, feet together, palms facing forward, and thumbs pointed away from the body.
What is Anatomical position?
100
A clean cut made with a sharp instrument; in embalming, a cut made with a scalpel to raise arteries and veins.
What is an Incision?
200
A multipurpose instrument used in the embalming process. Hint: Used in draining.
What are Angular Spring Forceps?
200
Death of the individual cells of the body.
What is Cellular Death?
200
A chemical that lightens a skin discoloration?
What is a Bleaching Agent?
200
In front of the elbow/in the bend of the elbow.
What is Antecubital?
200
The swelling and softening of tissues and organs as a result of absorbing moisture from adjacent sources.
What is Imbibition?
300
A tube used to inject embalming fluid into the blood vascular system.
What is an Arterial Tube?
300
Any procedure used to prove a sign of death usually performed by medical personnel.
What are Expert Tests of Death?
300
Substances that in solution are capable of neutralizing, within limits, both acids and bases and thereby maintaining the original, or constant pH, of the solution.
What are Buffers?
300
Rounded articular process on a bone.
What is a Condyle?
300
A cavity or opening of a vein, artery, or intestine.
What is a Lumen?
400
Inserted into a vein, used to aid the drainage of venous blood from the body.
What are Drain Tubes?
400
Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by their replacement.
What is Necrobiosis?
400
Chemical and physical agents that bring about coagulation.
What are Coagulating Agents?
400
Transparent part of the tunic of the eyeball that covers the iris and pupil and admits light into the interior.
What is a Cornea?
400
A device used in the mouth in shaping the contour of the lips.
What is a mouth former?
500
Instrument used to guide vein tubes into vessels.
What is a Groove Director?
500
In a dying state; in the agonal period.
What is Moribund?
500
Colorless, strong-smelling gas that when used in solution is a powerful preservative and disinfectant; A potential occupational carcinogen.
What is Formaldehyde / HCHO?
500
Anatomical structures forming the base of the femoral triangle; extends from the anterior superior iliac spine to the pubic turbicle.
What is an Inguinal Ligament?
500
Piercing mucous membranes or the skin barrier through such events as needlesticks, human bites, cuts and abrasions.