Other Flashcards
Other blood pattern
A gelatinous mass formed by a complex mechanism involving red blood cells, fibrinogen, platelets, and other clotting factors.
Blood clot
An absence of blood in an otherwise continuous bloodstain or bloodstain pattern.
Void
The stain resulting from the liquid portion of blood (serum) that separates during coagulation.
Serum stain
A bloodstain with characteristics that indicate a physical change has occurred.
Altered stain
An altered bloodstain that consists of the peripheral characteristics of the original stain.
Perimeter stain
A bloodstain resulting from insect activity.
Insect stain
Two or more pattern types co-mingled and/or time sequenced.
Sequenced bloodstains
Bloodstain patterns inconsistent with reliable eye witness testimony or patterns of known origin.
Unknows
