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scars
red blue firm- 5-6 days
soft sensitive - 2 weeks - 2 months
brown glistening wrinkled tender- 2-6 months
white glistening, non tender- >6 months
charting of teeth
universal 1-48, a-t palmer 1-7, a-e haderup +/-, o FDI - two digit modified fdi- separate numbers diagrammatically
kevorkian sign
segmentation of blood in vessels after death
can be seen in retinal vessels (cattle trucking)
fall in body temp avg/ environment temp reached at
0.4-0.7 Celsius/ 16-20 hours
pm staining
1-2 hour to appear
8-12 to set
delayed in asphyxia, intracranial lesion
faster in summer
pm staining asphyxia
deep blue violet
pm staining hypothermia, drowning, refrigeration
pink
mummified body pm staining
brown black
rigor mortis in summer
18-36 hrs
rigor Mortis in winter
25-48 hrs
nysten law
appearance of rigor Mortis
early rigor mortis
wasting disease, violent death, opc, strychnine, hcn, insulin,fatugue heart stroke
late rigor Mortis
paralysis, pneumonia, cold body, hemorrhage, asphyxia
putrefaction temperature
21-38 Celsius