______ is when the body becomes discolored by forming a blue-purple color after death due to the pull of gravity and the lack of pressure to push blood through the vascular system.
What is Livor Mortis?
Under “normal” conditions, Rigor Mortis is usually first evident how long after death? Which part of the body is Rigor Mortis first visible in?
2 hours, muscles of the face , neck
What can accelerate Rigor Mortis?
What does a Forensic Entomologist study to estimate the time of death?
What are insects?
_____ is when the body becomes stiff after death.
What is Rigor Mortis?
What is it called when the body with lighter skin becomes super pale after death. It occurs within 30 minutes.
What is Pallor Mortis
______ is the process of bacteria spreading through the human body and thus creating the onset of decomposition.
What is Putrefaction?
What are the first organisms to colonize a corpse?
Maggots / Flies
_____ is when the body temperature cools after death.
What is Algor Mortis?
Under “normal” conditions, how much time does it take for the body to become flexible again after undergoing Rigor Mortis?
30-36 hours
What are the two flaccidities states called?
What is primary and secondary.
What is the flow of food from beginning to end?
What is stomach, small intestine, then to large intestine.
Under normal conditions, when does Lividity typically become evident after death?
About 2 Hours
_______ begins as lysosomes break down and release their digestive enzymes into the cell, which in turn causes the breakdown of the cell itself.
What is Autolysis?
How many mortis stages does a decomposing body go through?
What is 4.
During Active Decay, why does the body lose so much mass?
Insects feeding of the corpse.
_____ is when the blue-purple color disappears from skin when pressed, causing a white color to appear where pressure is applied.
What is Blanching?
____ is a dark, reddish-brown strip that forms horizontally across the eye ball in individuals whose eyelids are not closed post mortem.
Tache Noire
What are the several changes an eye goes through after death?
What is pupils dialate, cornea gets cloudy and opaque may have tache noire.
What are the missing words in this phrase?
____ week in the _____
equals two ________ in water
and ______ weeks in _______.
What is one, air, weeks, eight, soil.