IT REFER TO THE VARIOUS PROCESSES THAT OCCUR IN A HUMAN BODY AFTER DEATH.

POST-MORTEM

THE BODY IS OPENED AND AN INTERNAL EXAMINATION IS CONDUCTED.

AUTOPSY

REFERS TO AN EXTERNAL EXAMINATION OF A DEAD BODY WITHOUT INCISION BEING MADE.

POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION

IT REFERS TO THE NORMAL COOLING OF A BODY AFTER DEATH AS THE RESULT OF

EQUILIBRATION OF THE BODY WITH THE AMBIENT (ENVIRONMENTAL) TEMPERATURE.
ALGOR MORTIS

IT REFERS TO THE SETTLING OF BLOOD TO THE DEPENDENT PARTS OF THE BODY

FOLLOWING DEATH.
LIVOR MORTIS

THE BLOOD MERELY GRAVITATES INTO THE MOST DEPENDENT PORTIONS OF THE BODY BUT
STILL INSIDE THE BLOOD VESSELS AND STILL FLUID IN FORM.
HYPOSTATIC LIVIDITY

THIS APPEARS DURING THE LATER STAGE OF ITS FORMATION WHEN THE BLOOD HAS
COAGULATED INSIDE THE BLOOD VESSELS OR HAS DIFFUSED INTO THE TISSUES OF THE
BODY.
DIFFUSION LIVIDITY

IN ASPHYXIA, THE LIVIDITY IS

DARK

PHOSPHORUS POISONING, THE LIVIDITY IS

DARK BROWN

CYANIDE POISONING, THE LIVIDITY IS

PINK-COLORED STAINING

REFERS TO THE PROGRESSIVE STIFFENING OF MUSCLES AFTER DEATH DUE TO CHEMICAL

CHANGES WITHIN THE MUSCLE FIBERS.
RIGOR MORTIS

IT IS A PHENOMENON, IN WHICH THE MUSCLES (CHIEFLY OF THE HAND) CONTRACT

FORCIBLY AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH.
CADAVERIC SPASM

IT REFERS TO THE POST-MORTEM DRYING THAT OCCURS PROMINENTLY ON MUCOUS

MEMBRANES.
DESICCATION

IT IS A SEQUENCE OF PHYSIOCHEMICAL EVENTS THAT BEGINS WITH DEATH AND ENDS WITH
DISSOLUTION OF NON-SKELETAL PARTS OF BODY.
DECOMPOSITION

IT REFERS TO THE PROCESS IN WHICH DIGESTIVE ENZYMES BREAK DOWN COMPLEX

PROTEINS AND CARBOHYDRATES INTO SIMPLER COMPOUNDS; DURING LIFE, THESE
DIGESTIVE ENZYMES ONLY ACT ON FOOD, BUT AFTER DEATH WILL BREAK DOWN
SURROUNDING TISSUE.
AUTOLYSIS

IT INVOLVES THE OVERGROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS WHICH FEED ON AND BREAK DOWN THE
DEAD TISSUES.
PUTREFACTION

IT OCCURS WHEN THE BODY COOLS RAPIDLY AND THE WARMTH NEEDED TO SUSTAIN
PUTREFACTIVE BACTERIAL GROWTH IS DENIED.
MUMMIFICATION
IT DEVELOPS AS THE RESULT OF HYDROLYSIS OF FAT WITH THE RELEASE OF FATTY ACIDS
WHICH, BEING ACIDIC.
ADIPOCERE

IT IS THE APPLICATION OF THE STUDY OF ARTHROPODS LIKE INSECTS, ARACHNIDS,

CENTIPEDES, AND CRUSTACEANS TO CRIMINAL OR LEGAL CASES, PRIMARILY THOSE
INVOLVING DEATH INVESTIGATIONS.
FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY/ ENTOMOLOGY

IT THE FIRST STAGE OF DEATH, IS AN AFTER-DEATH PALENESS THAT OCCURS IN THOSE
WITH LIGHT/WHITE SKIN.
PALLOR MORTIS

8 STEPS OF AUTOPSY
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
INTERNAL EXAMINATION
VIEWING THE ORGANS
REMOVAL OF ORGANS
REMOVING OF THE BRAIN
EXAMINING THE ORGANS
RETURNING THE ORGANS
SEWING UP THE BODY

POTASSIUM CHLORATE, POTASSIUM BICHROMATE POISONING, THE LIVIDITY IS

CHOCOLATE OR COFFEE BROWN

HEMORRHAGE, ANEMIA, THE LIVIDITY IS.

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