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Anencephalic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An infant born without a brain
Bereavement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sorrow following the death of a loved one
,Brain death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Final cessation of activity in the central
nervous system, as indicated by a flat electroencephalogram (EEG) or
absence of cerebral blood flow for a predetermined period of time
Cardiac death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Final cessation of activity in the
cardiovascular system involving the heart and blood vessels
Cessation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The final stoppage of action
Coroner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Typically an elected official who decides whether
a death occurred under circumstances that require an autopsy, either by
law or to determine manner or cause. A coroner can determine the scope
of an autopsy and who will perform it if the elected coroner is not qualified.
Only Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Ohio require, without
exception, that coroners be medical doctors
Jurisdiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The power or authority a court or office has
over individuals or trauma
Legal next-of-kin - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The person from whom the medicolegal
death investigator must secure consent before initiating any procurement
activity
,Medical examiner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Usually a medical doctor, although not
necessarily a highly trained pathologist. Like a coroner, a medical examiner
decides whether a death occurred under circumstances that may require
an autopsy and who will perform it if the medical examiner is not qualified.
A medical examiner is usually appointed to the position and may have
jurisdiction for a county, district, or state
OPO (organ procurement organization) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The agency
responsible for identifying potential donors, obtaining consent, and
procuring organs
Postmortem changes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Alterations of the body following
death, including decomposition and environmental resuscitative injuries
Statutes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Laws enacted by the legislative branch of
government
Verify - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Establish or confirm the accuracy of information or
evidence through testimony
Vital statistics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A governmental agency responsible for
maintaining a system of registration and release of records for the public,
including birth, marriage, divorce, and death
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, Antemortem blood sample - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An initial blood sample that
usually is obtained when the subject arrives at the hospital emergency
room, before additional diagnostic or therapeutic treatment is initiated
Authorization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Official permission granted by a superior
Common-law marriage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A marriage that is recognized
because the couple have been cohabiting for a determined length of time,
yet a legal marriage ceremony has not been performed
Confidential - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Revealed in confidence (trust, assurance), to
be kept secret
Cremation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The reduction of a dead human body to
inorganic bone fragments by intense heat in a specially designed chamber
Demographic information - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Personal identifying and specific
information regarding an individual's age, social security number, gender,
address, and so on
Disinterment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The opening of a grave and removal of the
body for the purpose of reexamination or removal to another site