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Mortuary Science TestAdaptive funeral - answerfuneral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; altered to suit the trends of the times.
American Board of Funeral Service Education - answeragency/organization with responsibility to accredit colleges and programs of mortuary science/funeral service education
Animistic view - answerearly Roman view of the afterlife which emphasizes the soul as the vital principle. The soul at death hovered around the place of burial and required constant attention of the descendants to be happy. Neglect would bring evil upon them.
anthropoid - answerhuman shaped; some early coffins were described as anthropoidal shaped.
Anubis - answerEgyptian god of embalming said to be of human form with the head of a
jackal.
Barber-surgeon - answerapproximately 1540-1745 were the sole agency permitted to embalm and perform anatomical dissections in the city of London.
Bier - answerforerunner of today's hearse; a hand stretcher on which the uncoffined body was carried to the grave.
Bloodletting - answerbelief or practice of draining a quantity of blood to cure illness or disease
Burial case - answergeneric term used in America to designate all burial receptacles as new variations of the coffin were being offered.
Burial club - answercreated in 1800's London by the 'poor' people as a means to afford funerals; costs were shared by others via weekly collections; were the forerunners of industrial insurance.
Burial in Woolen Act of 1666 - answerrequired that woolen cloth be substituted for linen in the shroud and lining of the coffin; was an attempt to shift the use of imported linen to the expanding paper industry of England and provide customers for the wool industry. Heavy fines were assessed for violation; not repealed until 1814. Burial Vault - answerouter enclosure for caskets placed in the grave; originally intended to prevent grave robbery
canopic jars - answerjars made of alabaster, limestone, basalt, clay and other materials used by the early Egyptians to store viscera of the deceased.
casket - answerfrom the French term 'casse' meaning 'jewel box' or container for something valuable; came into dominant use in patent literature for burial receptacles in 1890's in America; a rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, plastic, or like material, and ornamented and lined with fabric.
Casket Manufacturers Association - answerorganization of the casket manufacturers intended to facilitate sharing of information (now known as the Casket and Funeral Supply Association)
Catacombs - answeroriginated in ancient Rome as excavated cemeteries cut out of soft rock for the tombs of wealthy Christians; later became a place for religious rites to avoid
persecution.
catafalque - answerraised platform (with or without a canopy) used for a body to lie in state.
Chadwick's report - answer1840's reported on unsanitary conditions in London created by intramural burials, the high cost of funerals and the 1st use of the death certificate.
Circle of Necessity - answerancient Egyptian belief that the soul of the deceased would make a 3000 year journey and return to the body. Once reunited the whole man would live with the gods. This belief created the need for embalming.
coffin - answerfrom the Greek word 'kofinos'; utilitarian container designed to hold human remains, often anthropoidal in shape.
Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards - answerorganization of licensing agencies in North America; responsible for the national licensing exam known as the National Board Exam; established in St. Louis in 1904.
Cooling board - answerportable table on which the body was placed while the corpse cooler was in use; later became the embalming table when embalming was done in the home of the deceased.
Corpse cooler - answertype of ice chest placed over the torso the body in order to slow down the process of decomposition prior to the funeral. It was typically a responsibility of the undertaker to provide ice and change the ice when it melted.
cortege - answerfuneral procession
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