ANTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cervical Vertebrae, Stippling
30 May 2017
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The manner of death refers to how the cause of death occurred. Could have been an unsupervised death or too much damage or degradation has occurred to the body making the manner of death not able to be determined. The mechanism of death refers to the specific physiological processes as to how the cause of death occurred: used to describe what happened to a persons organs during their death, examples: Mechanism: severe damage to the cervical vertebrae. Visual examinations-looking over the body and writing down anything observable with the naked eye. Classification of trauma-how injuries are described on the body, by their severeness, location, or the type of force. Evidence collection: gathering all the evidence that remains on the body that can provide information on the cause of death, example: Vitreous fluids that are collected from the body to show more accurate levels of drugs or alcohol in the deceased persons system.
