Funeral Service Sciences - National board exam study Guide Questions And Answers 100% Pass
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Localized accumulation of pus - answerAbscess
(auxillary; assisting) this term is applied to a lesser structure that resembles a similar organ in
structure and function, such as the accessory pancreatic ...
Funeral Service Sciences - National board
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Localized accumulation of pus - answer✔Abscess
(auxillary; assisting) this term is applied to a lesser structure that resembles a similar organ in
structure and function, such as the accessory pancreatic duct - answer✔Accessory
A substance that yields hydrogen or hydronium ions in aqueous solution - answer✔Acids
Present itself after birth - answer✔Acquired
Hyperfunction of pituitary gland after ossification has been completed - answer✔Acromegaly
A disease with a more or less rapid onset and short duration - answer✔Acute
A wax-like material produced by saponification of body fat in the body buried in alkaline soil -
answer✔Adipocere (Gravewax)
A protein found in blood plasma - answer✔Albumin
An organic compound containing one or more hydroxyl (-OH) groups - answer✔Alcohols
An organic compound containing one or more -CHO groups - answer✔Aldehyde
The digestive system tube from the mouth to the anus, including the mouth or Buccal cavity,
pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines - answer✔Alimentary Canal
Having a hypersensitivity to a substance that does not normally cause a reaction -
answer✔Allergies
An acquired, abnormal immune response to a substance (allergen) that does not normally cause a
reaction - answer✔Allergy (hypersensitivity)
Congenital absence of one or more limbs - answer✔Amelia
An organic compound containing nitrogen; any compounds formed from ammonia by
replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by organic radicals. The general formula for
primary amines is R-NH2 - answer✔Amines
The building block of proteins; a compound containing an amino group (-NH2), a carboxyl (-
COOH) group attached alpha carbon and a radical - answer✔Amino Acid
Any compound that can act as both an acid and base in a solution. (amino acid). -
answer✔Amphoteric
Generalized massive edema in subcutaneous tissue - answer✔Anasarca
The branch of science dealing with the study of the structure of the body - answer✔Anatomy
a decrease in the number erythrocytes, hemoglobin or both - answer✔Anemia
A localized dilation of a blood vessel - answer✔Aneurysm
The study of vessels - answer✔Angiology
Mutual opposition or contrary action. The inhibition of one microorganism by another -
answer✔Antagonism
Glycoprotein substance developed by the body in response to, and interacting specifically with,
an antigen. Also known as immunoglobulin - answer✔Antibody
Chemicals used to keep the blood in the liquid state; chemical agents that retard the tendency of
the blood to become more viscous by natural post mortem processes and/or prevent other adverse
reactions between the blood and the other embalming chemicals - answer✔Anticoagulants
A foreign substance that stimulates the formation of antibodies that react specifically with it -
answer✔Antigen
The prevention or inhibiting of the growth of causative microorganisms - answer✔Antisepsis
Before or in front of; refers to the ventral or front side of the body - answer✔Anterior (ventral)
Dilution or weaking of virulence of a microorganism, reducing or abolishing pathogenicity -
answer✔Attenuation
Failure of a tissue or an organ to develop normally - answer✔Aplasia
The 126 bones in the bony structure that makes up pectoral girdle, upper extremities, pelvic
girdle, and lower extremities - answer✔Appendicular Skeleton
The concentrated, preservative embalming chemical that will be diluted with water ( or another
appropriate vehicle such as alcohol) to form the arterial solution for injection into the arterial
(vascular) system during vascular (arterial) embalming - answer✔Arterial (vascular) Fluid
Disease of the arteries resulting in thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls -
answer✔Arteriosclerosis
The place of union between two or more bones; a joint - answer✔Articulation
Accumulation of free serous fluid in the abdominal cavity - answer✔Ascities
A form of arteriosclerosis marked by the deposition of lipids in the inner layer of arterial walls . -
answer✔Atherosclerosis
The smallest particle of an element that has all the properties of the element - answer✔Atom
A wasting, decrease in size of an organ or tissue - answer✔Atrophy
Self-digestion or self-destruction of the body by autolytic enzymes - answer✔Autolysis
A postmortem examination of the organs and tissues of a body to determine cause of death or
pathological condition - answer✔Autopsy
Those chemicals specifically designed for use in the preparation of bodies following an autopsy -
answer✔Autopsy Chemicals
80 bones including the skull, vertebrae, thorax and hyoid bone - answer✔Axial Skeleton
Rod-Shape bacteria - answer✔Bacillus (pl. Bacilli)
The presence of bacteria in the blood - answer✔Bacteremia
A prokaryotic one-celled microorganism of the Kingdom Monera, existing as free living
organisms or as parasites, multiplying by binary fission and having a large range of biochemical
properties - answer✔Bacteria
A visible group of bacteria growing on a solid medium, presumably arising from a single
microorganism - answer✔Bacterial Colony
An agent that destroy's bacteria but not necessarily their spores - answer✔Bactericide
Science that studies bacteria - answer✔Bacteriology
A substance that yields hydroxide ions in aqueous solution - answer✔Bases
Refers to the symmetry of paired organs, or to an organism whose right and left halves are
similar images of each other, or in which a median section divides the organism into equivalent
right and left halves - answer✔Bilateral Symmetry
Pertaining to bile - answer✔Biliary
The organs and ducts that participate in the secretion, storage, and delivery of bile to the
duodenum - answer✔Biliary Tract
A method of asexual reproduction involving halving of the nucleus and cytoplasm of the cell
followed by the development of each half into a new individual. - answer✔Binary Fission
That branch of chemistry dealing with compounds produced by living organisms -
answer✔Biochemistry
An arthropod vector in which the disease causing organism multiplies or develops within the
arthropod prior to becoming infective for a susceptible individual - answer✔Biological Vector
A membranous sac or receptacle for a secretion or excretion - answer✔Bladder
The rapid passage of liquid particle to the vapor state by forming bubbles through the action of
heat. The term for the point equilibrium between the liquid and gas states of matter and typically
employed when the temperature is increasing. - answer✔Boiling
Relating to the cheek or mouth - answer✔Buccal
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 - answer✔Buffers
A general state of ill-health, associated with emaciation - answer✔Cachexia
A sheath or continuous enclosure around an organ or structure - answer✔Capsule
The membrane that surrounds some bacterial cells; a loose gel-like structure that, in pathogenic
bacteria, helps to protect against phagocytosis - answer✔Capsule
A compound of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen that is aldehyde or ketone derivative of
polyhydroxyl alcohol (sugars, starches, and glycogen) - answer✔Carbohydrates
several communicating boils of the skin and subcutaneous tissues with the 38 production and
discharge of pus and dead tissue - answer✔Carbuncle
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