Pathology
This childhood disease is caused by insufficient amounts of vitamin D. It results in bowing of the weight-bearing bones and flaring sternal rib ends.
What is rickets?
This small U-shaped bone in the neck is sometimes fractured during manual strangulation.
What is the hyoid bone?
This type of beveling is associated with projectile entrance wounds.
What is internal beveling?
This groove in bone is caused by the cutting actions of a saw.
What is a kerf?
This disorder causes porosity on the exterior of the cranium. It is commonly seen in individuals with chronic, severe anemia.
What is porotic hyperostosis?
This fracture occurs on the ulna, usually as the result of warding of an overhead blow.
What is a parry fracture?
These fractures are the first to appear in projectile trauma. They originate from the impact site and travel away from the site.
What are radiating fractures?
These injuries occur at or around the time of death.
What are perimortem injuries?
This general type of lesion take the form of excess bone being deposited at various locations throughout the skeleton.
What is a proliferative lesion?
This is the last stage of bone fracture repair. It occurs in the years following an injury.
What is remodeling?
This category refers to the way a person died, not the force.
What is Manner of Death?
This congenital condition results in rounded perforation in the sternum. It is often mistaken for a projectile wound.
What is a sternal aperture?
This feature of advanced degenerative joint disease results in a polished, shiny joint surface due to bone-on-bone friction.
What is eburnation?
Torsion (twisting) forces may produce this type of long bone fracture.
What is a spiral fracture?
This fracture results from compression forces and and is commonly seen in childhood accidental falls. They happen when the bone bends onto itself.
What is a buckle fracture?
This congenital condition produces midline nonfusion of neural arches of the vertebrae and the sacrum.
What is spina bifida (occulta)?
Fractures to the femoral neck and vertebrae are commonly seen in older individuals with this condition.
What is osteoporosis?
This classification system categorizes midfacial trauma.
What is the LeFort classification system?
This fracture occurs at the distal end of the 5th metacarpal from direct blunt force impact.
What is a Boxer's fracture?
This congenital condition results in one or more cranial sutures fusing prematurely.
What is cranial synostosis?