vocab
The injury, condition, or disease responsible for a person's death (such as heart attack or kidney failure)
What is cause of death?
The breakdown of once-living matter
What is decomposition?
A physician who performs autopsies, determines the cause and manner of death, and oversees death investigations
What is a medical examiner?
Body becomes stiff and stiffness moves through body. Occurs 2-6 hours after death
What happens when rigor begins?
In Egypt, first autopsy was performed on executed criminals
What is 300bc?
The cooling of body after death
What is algor mortis?
A medical doctor specifically trained to perform autopsies to determine the presence or absence of disease, injury, or poisoning
What is a Forensic pathologist?
red spots in the white of the eyes that form due to capillary rupture in blood vessels of the eye
What is petechial hemorrhages?
rigor completes. 12 hours after death.
What happens when peak rigor is exhibited?
Julius Caesar's autopsy determined which of 23 stab wounds caused death.
What happened 44 b.c.?
A fatty of waxy substance produced during the decomposition of dead bodies exposed to moisture
what is adipocere?
The pooling of the blood in tissues after death due to gravity that results in a red skin color
What is livor mortis?
the underlying cause of death that leads to the certification of the death
What is Proximate cause of death?
slow loss of rigor. Happens 15 to 36 hours after death.
What happens when rigor is uneven?
Research on rigor, livor, and algor mortis was published
What is mid-19th century?
The breakdown of cells as they self-digest
What is autopsy?
one of five ways in which a person's death is classified
What is manner of death?
The destruction of soft tissue by bacteria that results in the release of waste gases and fluids
What is putrefaction?
Rigor absent. 36 to 48 after death.
what does it mean when the muscles are relaxed?
Vesalius published text on human anatomy.
What happened 1543?
An elected official, either a layman or physician, who certifies deaths and can order additional investigations of suspicious deaths
What is coroner?
Medical professionals used to provide evidence on medical and legal issues
What is medicolegal death invetigators?
The stiffening of the skeletal muscles after death
What is rigor mortis?
The factors that affect rigors
What is temperature, Activity before death, and body mass?
Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo performed autopsies.
What happened 15th century?