Fun with Medical Terminology & Biology
A stone in the nose. (Not to be identified as a booger.)
RHINOLITH
THE CELLULAR DISTRUCTION OF A HUMAN REMAINS BY HEAT AND FLAME
CREMATION
Declaration of death can be certified by which professionals.
Doctor, Coroner, Physicians Assistant, Certified Nurse Practitioner.
Fingernails continue to grow after they die?
False Fingernails are dead cells and do not get regenerate. Most often it is dehydration around the nail that makes them look as if they have grown.
Inichement and Inurnment
When an urn is either place in a niche wall or buried in a grave at the cemetery.
The collection of fluid in the dorsal region of the lungs and occurs especially in those (as the bedridden or elderly) confined to a supine position for extended periods
Hypostatic Pneumonia
A form of final disposition where the remains of a deceased is interred in the ground, namely a cemetery grave.
EARTH BURIAL
Process must be authorized by the legal next of kin or designated representative by legal written direction, the person of legal rite to declare cause of death, and cause of death reviewed by the coroner of the county to which the death occurred. Chemical treatment of the body is not required.
CREMATION
A death certificate can only be prepared by a funeral provider?
No. They must be a legal representative. The legal representative can obtain the paperwork from the Vital Records, provide the information, contact the certifier and gather the signatures and file the certificate with Vital Records for a charge.
Legal Representative, Next of Kin
Depending on the relation to the deceased is the line of authority prioritized in the decision of disposition and treatment of the deceased remains.
The result in death by loss of blood.
Exanguination
The reduction of tissue by 95% water and 5% Alkaline. Water, alkaline chemicals, heat, and sometimes pressure and agitation, to accelerate natural decomposition, leaving bone fragments and a neutral liquid called effluent.
ALCHOLINE HYDROLISIS
Chemical treatment administered vascularly retards decomposition, protects the public from contact and aerial bacterial and viral diseases. Provides ability to apply restorative processes for viewings. Is not required by law. It is however a rule by the Health and Welfare for the public viewing of a deceased person.
EMBALMING
Bodies sit up after death?
NO
The separation of the spirit from the physical body.
Desolefication
The cellular level of the body where the artery passed the blood to the vein.
Capillary
Burial in a grave that requires that the outer container is biodegradable (without metal) in order to breakdown the deceased body through natural process in the earth.
The grave is prepared by hand, not mechanical motorized equipment.
GREEN BURIAL
24 Hour Rule
Health and Welfare declares a dead human remain as a disease barring object as soon as life signs have ceased. Therefore, a dead human remain must be embalmed, buried, cremated or refrigerated within the 24 hours of death for the protection of the public.
Cremated Remains are Ash?
No. It is calcium known as bone which is broken down to sand or powder sized granules after cremation has taken place.
The natural chemical build up in a body resulting in stiffening of the joints.
Rigor Mortis
If you get stiff in the joints, stay out of the joints.
The reduction of the body to alcohol and soap through the natural decomposition process.
SAPONIFICATION
When a body is placed in a container. Water, biological organic material, heat, and rotation is added. 5 to 7 Month process.
Mulching
How much time is a certifier given to declare the cause of death?
72 hours.
Things to removed from a deceased person prior to cremation.
Gold teeth, knees, Hips, plates, screws. No
Pain pump, pacemaker, possible items used for nuclear treatment of cancer, live rounds and explosives. Yes
Crutchfield-Jacobs Disease
The viral is encased in a prion that cannot be sterilized.