Forensic Science-Autopsy

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The five means by which someone dies: death, manner of death, cause of death, mechanism of death

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manner of death

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the stiffening of the skeletal muscles shortly after death

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rigor mortis

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the cooling of body temperature after death

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algor mortis

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one of the three larval stages of insect development

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instar

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the study of human skeletal system for purposes of identifying unknown remains

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forensic anthropology

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the specific body failure that leads to a person's death

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mechanism of death

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What is the term for the "death color"?

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livor mortis

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the study of insects as they pertain to crime scene investigation

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forensic entomology

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the process of rotting and break down

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decomposition

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the cessation, or end, of life

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death