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| 2555930304 | Abrasions | scraping of the skin surface, only epidermis is affected but can bleed | 0 | |
| 2555930305 | Brush Abrasion | angular contact with rough surface, skin tags | 1 | |
| 2555930306 | Bruises | leaking of blood from damaged vessels, intact epidermis, red purple, blue brown, green brown, yellow | 2 | |
| 2555930307 | Tramline Bruising | caused by rectangular objects or cylindrical objects , central pallor with surrounding bruising | 3 | |
| 2555930308 | Intradermal Bruising | sharply defined bleeding into the suspidermal layer caused by a patterned object | 4 | |
| 2555930309 | Microscopy | haemosiderin can be found in bruises aprox 48 hours | 5 | |
| 2555930310 | Laceration | tearing of the skin due to blunt force trauma | 6 | |
| 2555930311 | Blunt Force Truma | Abraisons, bruises, lacerations | 7 | |
| 2555930312 | Sharp Force Trauma | incised wounds, slash wound, stab wound | 8 | |
| 2555930313 | Incised wound | caused by anything with a sharp edge | 9 | |
| 2555930314 | Slash Wound | longer than it is deep | 10 | |
| 2555930315 | Stab Wound | deeper than it is long | 11 | |
| 2555930316 | Atherosclerosis | hardening of the arteries, build up of fatty plaque on the inside of the arteries, reduces the diameter of the artery and bloodflow | 12 | |
| 2555930317 | Cardiac Enlargement | mismatch between muscle mass and blood supply, caused by high blood pressure or heart valve diseal | 13 | |
| 2555930318 | Heart | made of myocardium muscle, divided into four chambers, ventricles & atria | 14 | |
| 2555930319 | Blood Supply To The Heart | 3 main arteries, circumflex, left anterior descending, right corrany artery | 15 | |
| 2555930320 | Arteries | thick walled, high pressure, elastic, smooth muscle, carries blood away from the heart | 16 | |
| 2555930321 | Veins | thinner walled, low pressure, carries blood towards the heart, valves, deoxygenated | 17 | |
| 2555930322 | Gas Exchange | oxygen is inhaled into air passages, diffusion into blood vessels in alveolus wall, exchange for carbon dioxide from blood, carbon dioxide exhaled | 18 | |
| 2555930323 | Airways | nose, mouth, larynx, trachea, bronchi, branches, alveoli, lungs | 19 | |
| 2555930324 | Suffocation | lack of oxygen in the environment or from obstruction of the air passages | 20 | |
| 2555930325 | Smothering | closing the external respiratory orifices or by blocking up the cavities of the nose and mouth | 21 | |
| 2555930326 | Early Post Mortem Changes | rigor mortis, lividity/hypostasis, body temperature | 22 | |
| 2555930327 | Later Post Mortem Changes | putrefaction, adipocere, mummification, skeletalisation, damage by predators | 23 | |
| 2555930328 | Rigor Mortis | breakdown of glycogen in muscle, build up of ADP, muscle fibres remain in contracted state | 24 | |
| 2555930329 | Timing of Rigor | very variable, temp of surroundings, physical activity before death, warm & flaccid 3 hours, warm & stiff 3-8 hours, cold & stiff 8-36 hours, cold & flaccid more than 36 hours | 25 | |
| 2555930330 | Hypostasis | pooling of blood in dependent parts of the body due to gravity, variable in colour | 26 | |
| 2555930331 | Body Temperature | 37, falls until reaches temp of surroundings, time of death = 37-body temperature + 3 | 27 | |
| 2555930332 | Putrefaction | red/black discolouration, skin blistering, gaseous, purging of fluid, insect activity, variable time scale | 28 | |
| 2555930333 | Mummification | can take months or years and last for years, drying of surface or body | 29 | |
| 2555930334 | Adipocere | white fatty change to the body, can develop in a number of weeks, few months | 30 | |
| 2555930335 | Skeletalisation | may take as little as a few months | 31 | |
| 2556033805 | Body Fluids | blood, saliva, semen | 32 | |
| 2556035033 | Presumptive Colour Tests For Blood Stains | iron serves as a catalyst for an oxidation reaction, phenolphthalein test, colourless to pink | 33 | |
| 2556036831 | Fluorescence Based Presumptive Tests For Blood | spray area of interest, observe & document in darkness, luminal blue | 34 | |
| 2556039658 | Confirmatory Tests | crystal tests, targets the non protein heme groups | 35 | |
| 2556040470 | Species Identification | precipitin test, based on antibody/antigen complex formation | 36 | |
| 2556041300 | Presumptive test for semen | visual and alternative light tests, acid phosphate test | 37 | |
| 2556041769 | Acid Phosphate Test | detects protein in the seminal fluid, is not a test for sperm, intense purple colour, removes phosphates from proteins | 38 | |
| 2556043230 | Confirmation tests for semen | christmas tree stain, semen strip test, prostate specific antigen | 39 | |
| 2556044343 | presumptive starch iodine test | starch appears blue as amylase breaks down starch blue disappears | 40 | |
| 2556045693 | confirmatory tests for saliva | based on antibody that is specific for the amylase variant that is present in human saliva | 41 | |
| 2556060181 | Forensic Pathologist | duty to investigate all sudden & unexplained deaths aswell as deaths in suspicious circumstances | 42 | |
| 2556064211 | Purpose of Autopsy | ascertain the cause of death, help exclude suspicious circumstances, help determine circumstances surrounding the death, identification | 43 | |
| 2556068918 | External Exam | rigor mortis, hypostasis, general features, injuries | 44 | |
| 2556069589 | Internal Exam | removal of major organs, examination of each organ, body cavities, skeleton | 45 | |
| 2556073937 | Further Investigations | toxicology, histology, neuropathology, immunology | 46 | |
| 2574010964 | Defence Wounds | back of forearm, wrist, hand, palm of hand, thigh, shins | 47 | |
| 2574016834 | Description of stab wounds | direction, depth, approximate force, internal structures damaged | 48 |
