Pathology in Media
This 2016 indie horror film features the autopsy of an unidentified woman who enacts her revenge on the medical examiner that opens her up.
What is the Autopsy of Jane Doe
Cells taken from this patient's cervical cancer became the first widely known immortal human cell line. What are they called OR who is that patient?
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
What are HeLa cells?
When a body is submerged in water, does it sink or float and why?
Float. gases produced during decomposition can make the body swell until it becomes buoyant enough to rise.
Doctors won't try as hard to save you if you're an organ donor.
Myth or fact?
Myth
This is considered one of the rarest blood types in the world or "Golden blood"
What is Rh-null
the show NCIS typically investigates deaths involving which U.S military branch?
What is the Navy and marine corps
This woman became famous as an asymptomatic carrier of which disease, despite never having symptoms herself
Who is Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon)?
What bizarre phenomenon can occur when gases produced during decomposition build up pressure inside a pregnant person's body after death?
What is Postmortem fetal extrusion (coffin birth?
If someone dies from a drug overdose, the manner of death is automatically homicide.
Myth or fact?
Myth.
An overdose can have different manners of death depending on the circumstances; for example, it may be classified as an accident, suicide, or undetermined.
Chronic inflammation causes extensive calcium deposition in the wall of an organ, making it rigid and brittle.
What is porcelain gallbladder?
The name of the Orlando medical examiner featured in her own reality show
who is Dr. G (Dr. Jan Garavaglia)?
Musician Bob Marley died after melanoma that began in an unusual location: what part of the body was initially affected?
What is the nail bed/toe?
During an autopsy, these three structures are all removed together in one piece.
What is the trachea, tongue, and esophagus?
cardiac arrest is a cause of death
myth or fact?
myth *technically*
Manner of death=What circumstances surrounded it?
Homicides, suicides, natural, accidental, undetermined are categories for a MANNER of death.
Cause of death=What started the chain of events?
Gunshot wound, Coronary artery disease, Severe blood loss
Mechanism of death= What physically stopped the body?
Exsanguination (bleeding to death), Cardiac arrest, Asphyxiation
This rare fatal neurodegenerative disease can cause uncontrollable laughing or other abnormal movements before death.
The name of the medical examiner in the hit movie franchise "Men in Black"
who is Dr. Weaver
This distinctive feature was first popularized by 1947 unsolved homicide case, and has since been featured on many pop culture characters.
What is a Glasgow Smile?
This organ is said to be one of the easiest to identify during an autopsy due to its textbook-like coloration
What is the gallbladder?
An autopsy always means every organ is removed from the body.
myth.
The extent and method of an autopsy depend on the circumstances and purpose of the examination.
In this extremely rare genetic disorder, muscles, tendons, and other connective tissues progressively turn into bone, creating a second skeleton throughout the body.
what is Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
This 1933 silent film is the first recorded autopsy
What is "Herr Professor Doktor Jakob Erdheim, 1933"?
The condition of this bone fueled conspiracy theories that Jeffery Epstein's cause of death was incorrectly determined.
What is the hyoid bone?
Decomposing bodies are said to have a sickeningly sweet smell that is similar to what food?
What is cherries?
If someone dies during a dangerous activity, the death is automatically classified as an accident.
myth
The manner of death depends on the circumstances and evidence surrounding the death.
Condition made famous by "bubble boy"
What is Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)?