ASM 275 Study Guide - Final Guide: False Start, Maxilla, Ulna
8 Feb 2018
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Asm 275: forensic anthropology exam 3 study guide. Trauma injury cause to the living tissue by an outside force. Can be used to determine the cause and manner of death: projectile trauma (bullet, arrows, spears, blunt force trauma (blus, bats, sharp force trauma knives sowrds. Cause of death processes that cause you to stop creating and causing the heart to stop beating. Manner of death the way the person dies (homicide, suicide, etc. ) Characteristics of forces causing trauma: direction of force applied causes characteristic fracture types and patters. Colles fractures of distal radius falls ground is outside force. Perimortem injury happened near time of death. Postmortem there is no injury, the bone breakage occurred after death. Phases of fracture healing: hematoma forms blood pools over surface internal scab to help stabilize break, callus formation woven bone deposited, remodeling of woven bone into mature bone. Rounding of broken edges < 1 week.
