Sharp Force Trauma
This type of wound is characterized by a long narrow mark on the bone with a v-shaped profile.
What is an incision?
Blunt force trauma to a long bone often results in one of which two types of fractures?
What are transverse or oblique fractures?
This type of fracture is characterized by creation of multiple fragments.
What is a comminuted fracture?
This is the name for the anatomical point between the brows.
What is the glabella?
This is the first step on documenting skeletal trauma.
What is describing the bone?
This is the name for the distinctive rectangular cut left on bone by use of a saw.
What is a kerf?
What is manual strangulation?
A spiral fracture is most likely due to what speed of force.
What is dynamic force?
This is the name for the anatomical point where the nasal bones meet the frontal bone.
What is the nasion?
This aging method monitors closure of bone growth plates.
What is epiphyseal fusion aging?
An attack with a screwdriver will likely leave this type of trauma on bone.
What is a puncture?
A trauma with bone damage but no discernible focus is categorized as this.
What is diffuse?
These are the four major types of fracture.
What are transverse, spiral, comminuted, and concentric?
This anatomical point is directly anterior to the foramen magnum.
What is the basion?
A bone with a transverse fracture and white breakage ends is likely to have occurred when.
What is post-mortem?
This type of wound can partially be characterized by excessive bone wastage.
What is a cleft?
Blunt force trauma to the cranium is likely to result in these four characteristics.
What are concentric fractures, crushing of the inner table, crushing of the diploe, and formation of a bone plug.
The name of a fracture which does not completely transect the bone.
What is an infraction?
This is the anatomical point where the coronal suture and sagittal sutures meet.
What is the bregma?
These are the two types of bone lesions.
What are lytic and proliferative?
These are the five characteristics which can be estimated by examination of sharp force trauma on bone.
What are size, shape, force, direction, and number/sequence of injuries?
This is the name of fractures incurred by blunt trauma to the face.
What are LeFort fractures?
These are the five directions of force which can result in fractures.
What are bending, shearing, tension, compression, and torsion?
This is the anatomical point where the sagittal and lamboidal sutures meet.
What is the lambda?
These characteristics can be determined by analyzing projectile trauma.
What are bullet caliber, construction, velocity, and angle?