Chapter 12- Death Investigations

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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:

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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?

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3-8 hours

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True or False? Experts cannot agree on a single definition for death.

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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homicide

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What accumulates in the eye after death?

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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

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homicide

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If a body shows no visible rigor, it probably has been dead

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less than two hours or more than 48 hours

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The reason someone dies is called the

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cause of death

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To take a corpse's temperature, forensic investigators insert a thermometer into the

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liver or rectum

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Rigor mortis is

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temporary

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The underlying cause of death is called the

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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

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rigor mortis