ANTH 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Avulsion Fracture, Forensic Anthropology, Frostbite
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Trauma injury caused to living issue by outside force. Any hard surface can cause trauma: chemicals can cause trauma, extreme heat/cold. Cause is the same in every person heart stops beaing, lungs stop breathing: old age; accidental trauma; disease. Normally cannot determine cause of death just from bones: use terms such as: Consistent with ___, not caused ___ : too many variables and unknowns. Manner is the way an individual died: homicide, suicide, accident, natural causes, unknown. Job of the coroner, not the forensic anthropologist: present coroner with informaion and they make inal decision. Happens more oten in kids, because bones are more ___, less minerals. Clean fracture broken ends are separated from each other. Hinge fracture is an infracion (break hasn"t gone all the way through, partly sill atached to the bone) Comminuted fracture muliple bone fragments in the break: usually indicates violence.
