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The larvae of an insect is found on a victim's body surface during the external examination. This specialist would be asked to examine the larvae and provide additional information to calculate time of death.
What is an entomologist?
This tool is what a doctor would use to evaluate a urinalysis test report to determine whether or not a patient's results are normal.
What is a reference range?
This is the name for the process in which blood pools at the lowest point in the body when the body dies.
What is Livor Mortis?
This is required when criminal activity is suspected in someone's death.
What is a forensic autopsy?
Stiffness
What is rigor?
Dean has been called to work because a body or part of a body has been found in an advanced state of decay/ When he arrives on scene, Dean will offer assistance in identifying bodily remains. Dean is this.
What is a forensic anthropologist?
This branch of government regulates home medical tests from the drug store.
What is the FDA?
This is the term used to describe a body that is found in an advanced state of decay.
What is skeletonized?
This is requested when a physician wanted to know more about the disease process surrounding someone's death.
What is a clinical autopsy?
Death
What is Mortis?
This person is called in to view the body, determine the cause of death, and order an autopsy if necessary.
What is a medical examiner?
This must be followed to ensure accurate test results
What is Standard Operating Procedure?
Gender can be determined by examining this bone structure.
What is the pelvis?
The SOP to begin a forensic autopsy
What is examine the exterior of the body?
Specimens are treated as they have an infectious disease.
What is a Biological Hazard?
This is the usual qualification of a medical examiner who is in charge of death investigations.
What is a pathologist?
To reduce this, the doctor wants to know the specificity before selecting a diagnostic test.
What is false positive results?
This is the time frame in which the human body will begin to display signs of rigor mortis.
What is 2-6 hours?
This is the shape of the cut on the chest and abdomen in which is performed to perform a normal autopsy.
What is a "Y"?
A technique for looking at an organism's set of chromosomes
What is karyotyping?
The study of gene responses to a particular medication.
What is pharmacogenomics?
This law was passed by Congress to ensure the accuracy of diagnostic testing and requires the federal government to regulate the training lab employees receive and the types and quality of the instruments used to analyze samples.
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments in 1988?
The police find a body that they believe is a child's. These are used to determine age at time of death.
What is the ossification of the bone and the eruption of adult teeth?
This occurs during an autopsy after each organ is removed from the body.
What is weighed and examined?
The law in which you cannot be discriminated against due to inherited genes and affect they have on risk for diseases.
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?