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Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Adipocere/Grave Wax

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  • soft, grayish white to brown, wax like material composed of oleic, politic, and steric (fatty acids).
  • formed by the post-mortem hydrolysis and hydrogenation of body fats
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Agonal Algor

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Agonal Capillary Expansion

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Agonal Dehydration

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Agonal Edema

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Agonal Fever

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Agonal Hypostasis

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Agonal Period

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Anabolism

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Autolysis

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Biological Death

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Cadaveric Spasm

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Catabolism

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Clinical Death

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Contact Pallor

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Death Rattle

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Death Struggle

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Decay

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Desquamation

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Extrinsic Factors

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Fermentation

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Hemolysis

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Imbibition

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Intrinsic Factors

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Moribund
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Postmortem Cellular Death
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Post Mortem Chemical Changes
Rigor Mortis, Postmortem Stain, Postmortem Caloricity, Shifts in pH, Decomposition
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Postmortem Physical Changes
Algor Mortis, Hypostasis, Livor Mortis, Dehydration, Increase in blood viscosity, Endogenous invasion of microorganisms
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Primary Flaccidity
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Ptomaine
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Putrefaction
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Secondary Flaccidity
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Sludge
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Somatic Death
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Taphonomy
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Translocation
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Expert Tests of Death
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Inexpert Tests of Death
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Order of decomposition of body compounds
1.) Carbohydrates 2.) Soft Proteins 3.) Fats 4.)Hard Proteins 5.) Bones
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Stages of Somatic Death
Clinical Death Brain Death Biological Death Postmortem Cellular Death
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Somatic Death
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Clinical Death
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Brain Death
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Biological Death
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Postmortem Cellular Death
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Signs of Decomposition
Color, odor, skin slip, gases, and purge
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