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23 Cards in this Set
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Within minutes of death, certain insects arrive to ______________________ on the warm body
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lay eggs. |
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Factors including rigor include:
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all of these choices |
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The speed of decomposition, or the rotting of all tissues and organs in the body, depends on the age, size of the body, and: |
nature of death |
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A "rule of thumb" PMI estimate is that if the body feels warm and is stiff, it has probably been dead for how long? |
3-8 hours |
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True or False? Experts cannot agree on a single definition for death. |
True |
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Pooling of blood in the body, known as lividity, provides a clue as to how long the person has been dead. Lividity first begins about: |
2 hours after death |
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Medical examiners help determine the time of death by studying the stomach contents. In general, it takes:
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four to six hours for the stomach to empty its contents into the small intestine and another twelve hours for the food to leave the small intestine |
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The specific change in the body that brought about the cessation of life is called the |
mechanism of death |
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Livor mortis means roughly the
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death color |
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Algor mortis means roughly |
death heat and describes the temperature loss in a corpse |
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Dual lividity could occur if the body was kept in one position |
two hours after death, and then moved to a second location before the lividity became permanent |
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Following death, the surface of the eye |
dries out |
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An elderly woman dies after being kept from receiving proper health care by her children. The manner of her death would be |
homicide |
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What accumulates in the eye after death? |
potassium |
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A man with a heart condition is attacked and dies from a heart attack during the attack. The manner of his death is |
homicide |
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If a body shows no visible rigor, it probably has been dead |
less than two hours or more than 48 hours |
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The reason someone dies is called the |
cause of death |
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To take a corpse's temperature, forensic investigators insert a thermometer into the |
liver or rectum |
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Rigor mortis is |
temporary |
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The underlying cause of death is called the |
proximate cause of death |
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True or False? Natural death is caused by interruption or failure of body functions due to age or disease. This is the least common manner of death.
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False |
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Death stiffness is roughly defined as |
rigor mortis |