Attesting death Flashcards
Any change for the position of the cadaver will not change the location of this type of cadaveric lividity
Diffusion
Insatantaneous rigor
Cadaveric spasm
Tested in suspected cases of lead poisoning
Liver, bone, kidneys
During autopsy, what is opened first
Cranial box
Organ tested for chloride in drowning
Heart
Condition where the body becomes soft and flaccid after the disappearance of rigor mortis
Stage of secondary flaccidity
Organ tested for chloride in drowning
Heart
Most important determinant of the wounding capacity of a bullet
Bullet momentum
Gutter fracture is caused by
Tangential approach of the bullet
Due to entrance of water into the air sacs which makes the lungs doughy
Edema aquosum
Tattooing or
Stippling
Dense networks of fibrous and elastic connective tissue fibersrunning in the same direction.
Langers line
Disruption in the continuity if a muscular or ligamentous support of a joint
Sprain