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What is a fatty/waxy substance produced during the decomp of a body exposed to moisture?
What is Adipocere?
Who is an elected official who certifies death and orders additional investigations?
What is a coroner?
What is the specific psysiological, physical, or chemical event that stops life?
What is mechanism of death?
What is the stiffening of the skeletal musclesafter death?
What is rigor mortis?
Describe the physical and chemical changes in death, and how they provide evidence.
The body can change color and get cold, revealing how long ago death occured, maggots can come, and other natural factor can break down the body.
What is the cooling of the body after death?
What is algor mortis?
What is the breakdown of once-living matter?
What is decomposition?
What are medical proffesionals used to provide evidence in med/legal issues?
What are medical death investigators?
Explain the forensic importance of examining death, and the role of the coroner, medical examiner
The coroner adds investigations to death, a medical examiner determines the cause of death, and the importance of examining death explains how people die, which can give families clarity.
What is the breakdown of cells as they self-digest?
What is autolysis
Who is a medical doctor who preforms autopsies to determine the cause of death?
Who is a forensic pathologist?
What are red spots in the white of the eyes that form due to capillary rupture in blood vessels of the eye?
What are petechial hemorrhages
Describe how the examination of death in early history compares to now
Since 400 b.c, people have known that people die of natural causes rather than supernatural.
What is the medical examination of a dead body?
What is an autopsy
What is the pooling of blood in tissues after death?
What is livor mortis?
What is the underlying cause of death that leads to the certification of death?
What is proximate cause of death
Discuss manner, cause, and mechanism of death, how its decribed by experts
Experts explain it in four ways, natural, accidental, suicidal, and homicidal death.
What is the injury, condition, or disease responsible for someones death?
What is the cause of death?
What is one of five ways in which a persons death is classified?
What is manner of death?
What is the destruction of soft tissue by bacteria that results in the release of waste gasses?
What is putrefication?
Explain the predictable sequence of changes that occur in death, including algor, rigor, and livor mortis.
Usually, its algor, livor, then rigor.