Vocabulary
A phenomenon due to hypothermia where an individual will feel they are overheating and remove some or all of their clothing.
What is paradoxical undressing?
What does the abbreviation ABMDI stand for?
What is American Board Medicolegal Death Investigation?
Name the eight sections that construct our scene reports.
What are initial call, recent history, scene investigation, medical history, social history, body examination, disposition, and follow-up?
The four life cycles of a maggot.
What are eggs, larvae, pupa, and adult?
Specimen collected before death.
What is an antemortem specimen?
Superficial injuries caused by blunt force of broken side window glass of motor-vehicles.
What are dicing injuries?
This statute discusses the roles and obligations of the Coroner/Medical Examiner Offices in Wisconsin.
What is Wisconsin State Statute 979?
Name four common types of natural deaths.
What are cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, neurological, renal, cancer, and alcoholism?
An after-death process that sets within 12 to 24 hours.
What is rigor mortis?
The individual who determines the entrance and exit locations of gunshot wounds.
Who is a forensic pathologist, more specifically, not any of us.
Injuries on the body from powder fragments created by close-range gunshot wounds.
What is stippling?
The entities that should receive the RCMEO triage note for autopsy cases.
Who are the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office, Racine County Medical Examiner and Chief Deputy ME, Racine County District Attorney, and the investigating law enforcement agency?
Name five types of suicide.
What are gunshot wound(s), hanging, overdose, cutting or stabbing, jumping (falls), asphyxiation, other trauma?
Decedent pronouncement must be at least one minute apart in this circumstance.
What is when there are multiple deaths at the same scene?
The acronym for OSHA.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
What are tardieu spots?
Name the two stages of chemical decomposition.
What are autolysis and putrefaction?
Name five types of accidental deaths.
What are motor-vehicle crashes, train, aircraft, overdose, fires, drowning, fall, electrocution, carbon monoxide, exposure (hypothermia or hyperthermia), altitude, occupational, gunshot, poisoning, choking?
A process where blood vessels are visible on the skin as greenish-black streaks and eventually results in skin discoloration ranging from green to black.
What is marbling?
The study and application of medical and scientific methods as evidence in legal cases, pertaining to both medicine and law.
What is the definition of medico-legal?
Small red or purple bruises caused by capillary rupture and bleeding under the skin.
What is Petechiae?
A physical finding on an initial body examination that brings up concerns of carbon monoxide poisoning (hypothermia, CO poisoning, etc.).
What is cherry pink lividity?
Name five pieces of demographic information that should be included with all death investigations.
What are decedent's name, date of birth, date of death, location of death (with address), home address, race, gender, phone number, etc.?
A hidden or illegal burial containing human remains.
What is a clandestine burial/grave?
The byproducts of human decomposition.