Kozian Unit 5 Forensic Pathology/Autopsy

What is algor mortis?

• the rigidity of the body after death due to lack of ATP in muscles and inability to relax

• the pooling of blood to parts of the body due to gravity

• the cooling of the body after death that happens at specific intervals

• the process by which pathologists determine cause, manner, and mechanism of death by opening the body and observing and measuring organs

Position of the body after death, as well as whether the body has been moved, can be determined by...

• rigor mortis

• algor mortis

• livor mortis

• all of these

An examination of the body after death usually with dissection that will expose the vital organs for determining the cause of death.

• Autopsy
• Forensic disscection
• Forensics
• Forensic surgery

A physician who performs an autopsy when death may be accidental or violent. He or she may also serve in some jurisdictions as the coroner.

• County Coroner
• Pathologist
• Medical Examiner
• Physicist

the stiffening of the skeletal muscles shortly after death

• livor mortis
• autolysis
• rigor mortis
• algor mortis

the process of rotting and break down

• rigor mortis
• decomposition
• livor mortis
• putrefaction

post-mortem examination

• adipocere
• autolysis
• autopsy
• entomology

is the time that has elapsed since a person has died.

• algor mortis
• livor mortis
• post mortem interval
• rigor mortis

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

• mouth
• liver
• armpit
• stomach

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS3-4

What is the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner?

• Medical examiners can issue death certificates while coroners are typically pathologists who perform autopsies.

• Coroners can issue death certificates while medical examiners are typically pathologists who perform autopsies.

• Coroners are always pathologists and medical examiners are not.

• Coroners can issue death certificates and perform autopsies.