This to the undertaker and the embalmer is known as postmortem discoloration.
The rate at which cooling occurs is most rapid as a rule, during the hours immediately following death, notwithstanding the postmortem rise which may ensue.
Not infrequently the subcutaneous tissue in the neighborhood of these postmortem discolorations become infiltrated with a reddish serum.
If putrefactive changes be present, the difficulty of distinguishing between antemortem and postmortem bruises is greatly enhanced.
Water, sufficient to make 1 gall =Postmortem Discoloration.
In general, unless a wound is old enough for the edges to present inflammatory changes, the embalmer must be very careful in asserting its antemortem or postmortem character.
The tissues after death are shrunken and drawn, and the extremities are inclined to be mottled; in some cases there is a postmortem rise of temperature.
There was extensive hemorrhage into the brain, as shown by postmortem examination, the cerebral vessels being atheromatous.
After the death of Joanna Southcott, her followers refused to believe her dead, and consented to a postmortem examination of her body, only when decomposition had actually commenced.
Nobecourt, Tixier and Maillet report postmortem examinations where the marrow showed an increased number of myelocytes and nucleated red cells of various kinds.
Other authors have failed to demonstrate similar lesions, or have considered them due to postmortem change.
This has not been considered a sign of scurvy, and when noted clinically or at postmortem has been passed over without comment, just as has been the case with cardiac hypertrophy.
In one of his first cases with postmortem verification, Barlow described this appearance as follows: "The muscular walls of the thorax were pale yellow and watery, as though they had been bathed in serum.
At postmortem examination we find numerous hemorrhages of the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum, which rarely produce symptoms during life.
We noted that at the time of the postmortem examination.
Photograph (after Publications of the Civil Medical Service in Netherlands, India) shows the progressive postmortem changes in rat cadavers, the numbers indicating the number of days after death.
The postmortem examination showed that the ball had pierced the sternum just above the xiphoid cartilage, and had entered the pericardium to the right and at the lower part.
Postmortem examination showed traces of a line of rupture through the substance of the gland; the preparation was deposited in St. George's Hospital Museum in London.
Slee mentions a case in which, after the death of a man from septic peritonitis following a bullet-wound of the intestines, he found postmortem a knife-blade 5/16 inch in width projecting into the brain to the depth of one inch.
A postmortem examination revealed the fact that an ordinary knife-blade had been driven into his brain on the right side, just above the ear, and was completely hidden by the skin.
A postmortem showed the abdominal cavity to be full of blood; at Douglas' culdesac there was a tear large enough to admit a man's hand, through which protruded a portion of the omentum; this was at first taken for the membranes of an abortion.
The man finally died of his malady, and at postmortem it was found that his stomach had burst, showing a slit four inches long.
At the postmortem examination the wounds in the organs were found to be healed, but the cicatrices were quite evident.
At the postmortem a mobile mass of food about the size of a hazel-nut was found at the base of the larynx at the glossoepiglottic fossa.
Driver relates the history of a woman of thirty-five, who died in the eighth month of gestation, and who was delivered postmortem by the vagina, manual means only being used.
Menstruation after hysterectomy and ovariotomy has been attributed to the incomplete removal of the organs in question, yet upon postmortem examination of some cases no vestige of the functional organs in question has been found.
A postmortemexamination disclosed the existence of an aberrant right subclavian artery in the posterior mediastinum, and this was the seat of a traumatic aneurysm that had ruptured into the esophagus.
The frequency with which we see advanced arteriosclerosis at the postmortem table as an accidental discovery, attests the truth of the foregoing statement.
II, with postmortem rigor and contraction of the muscles of the media and removal of the blood pressure from within, the stretched media at M'' contracts; the intimal thickening thus projects into the arterial lumen.
Hence the dilatation which is found postmortemmust have been considerable during life.
It was a constant source of surprise to his students to note how well the master's diagnosis agreed with postmortem findings.
The next great step connecting bedside observations with postmortem appearances was made by Auenbrugger in Vienna in distant Austria.
Observations made postmortem showed that his clinical observations were justified by the differences observed in the organ.
As a medical student scarcely twenty years of age, he revolutionized medical observation by studying his fatal cases with a comparative investigation of their clinical symptoms and the postmortem findings.
The failure to obtain secretin in some cases they claim is probably due to the rapid postmortem degeneration of diabetic tissue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postmortem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
