Quiz & Worksheet - Definitions of Death

Instructions:

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question 1 of 3

What are the foundations for clinical death?

No pupil or eye reactions

No reflexes or automatic behaviors

No response to pain

No respiration or blood flow

All of the above

Worksheet

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1. Brain death and cortical death both have

Brain damage
Reversibility
Cardiac death
All answers are correct
No answer is correct

2. Cortical death is described as

Intermittent vegetative state
Persistent vegetative state
Intermittent animalistic state
Persistant animalistic state
Lou Gehrig's disease

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About This Quiz & Worksheet

This quiz/worksheet combo will help you quickly assess your understanding of the different ways in which death can be described. To pass the quiz, you will need to be familiar with the terms used to describe each of these types of death.

Quiz & Worksheet Goals

In these assessments you'll be tested on:

Terms used to describe:
- The foundation of medical death
- A characteristic of both brain death and cortical death
- Cortical death
- What psychic death is linked to
- What type of death genocide and evictions from countries may lead to

Skills Practiced

This worksheet and quiz will allow you to test the following skills:

Critical thinking - apply relevant concepts to examine information about death in a different light
Distinguishing differences - compare and contrast brain and cortical death
Information recall - access the knowledge you've gained regarding the criteria for clinical death

Additional Learning

To learn more about this topic, review the accompanying lesson called Definitions of Death. This lesson covers the following objectives:

List the different types of death
Define and compare cortical and brain death
Describe clinical death
Identify the criteria for clinical death
Discuss the characteristics of psychic death
Provide details about social death
Use examples throughout the lesson to illustrate the meaning of each type of death

Practice Exams

Final Exam