Vocab
A fatty or waxy substance produced during the decomposition of dead bodies exposed to moisture.
What is adipocere?!
The breakdown of once-living matter.
What is decomposition?
medical professionals used to provide evidence on medical and legal issues investigators.
what is medicolegal death investigators?!
Explain the forensic importance of examining death, and the role of the coroner, medical examiner, and pathologist in death investigations.
What is 12.1?
Identify the questions to be considered, and the steps that need to be taken, during a death-scene investigation.
what is 12.6?
The cooling of the body after death.
What is Algor Mortis?!
A medical doctor specifically trained to perform autopsies to determine the presence of absence of disease,injury,or poisoning.
What is 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?!
Describe how the examination of death in early history compares to our approach today.
what is 12.2?
Explain what is involved in the forensic analysis of a deceased body, including conducting the autopsy, establishing a postmortem interval, and determining a probable cause of death.
what is 12.7?
The breakdown of cells as they self-digest.
What is Autolysis?!
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?!
Discuss manner, cause, and mechanism of death, and how “death” itself is defined by experts.
what is 12.3?
Summarize how new technologies are improving death investigations.
what is 12.8?
A medical examination to determine the cause of death.
What is Autopsy!?
One of five ways in which a person's death is classified(I.e., natural, accidental, suicidal, homicidal, or undermined.)
What is a manner of death!?
destruction of soft tissue by bacteria that results in the release of waste gases and fluids.
what is putrefaction?!
Explain the predictable sequence of changes that occur during the process of death, including algor, rigor, and livor mortis.
what is 12.4?
Estimate postmortem intervals based on evidence from proposed death scenes.
what is 12.9?
An elected official, either a layman or a physician, who certifies deaths and can order additional investigation of suspicious deaths.
What is a Coroner!?
the specific physiologist, physical, or chemical event that stops life.
What is Mechanism of death!?
the stiffening of the skeletal muscles after death.
what is rigor mortis?!
Describe the chemical and physical changes that occur during the stages of decomposition, and how they provide evidence in the examination of death.
What is 12.5?
Analyze data collected from a simulated model of a human body to determine rate of heat loss over a 24-hour period.
what is 12.10?