ANT205H5 Lecture Notes - Trachea, Hyoid Bone, Collagen
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Cause, manner & mode of death: coroner/medical examiner, cause disease or injury death, must have soft tissue to determine manner of death definitively, manner type of death. Homicide, suicide, accident, natural causes, undetermined, death by misadventure: mode method by which death occurs. Cause of death: pathologist authority. Describe soft tissue changes to vital centres. Many fatal injuries do not affect bone. Provide info to assist the determination of cause. Identify, describe, record bone trauma: angles of entry, direction and force of blows, patterns and timing of events, am vs pm, healed vs unhealed. Types of injury: electrical injuries, firearms, asphyxiation (drowning = asphyxiation by water) Inbending it was a really hard impact: fragmentation. Fracture sharp trauma: edged instrument, kerf. Groove made by cutting tool: kerf floor. Point at which cut terminates (bottom tip: penetrating. Enter structure which goes for soft tissue or bones: perforating. May not necessary get a kerf, depends on how deep.
