Forensic Pathology

What is the reason for autopsy?

• Candy

• Old age

• Unnatural cause

• Declined by family

The body at a crime scene has begun to lose rigor mortis. About how long has the victim been dead?

• 2-6 hours

• 12 hours

• 15-36 hours

• 46-48 hours

Forensic pathology refers to

• relying on dental records

• using psychiatry and psychology in investigations

• working with skeletal remains

• determining the cause and manner of death

Which of the following would NOT require an autopsy?

• Decedent found floating in a river

• Death in a hospital with an attending physician able to render a cause of death as a heart attack

• Death by suspected suicide

• Decedent found deceased in their home

Which of the following best describes rigor mortis?

• It is the pooling of blood after deaath

• It is the stiffening of muscles after death

• It is the cooling of the body after death

The specific change in the body that brought about the body's inner workings to stop is called the: (the medical reason for death)

• manner of death

• cause of death

• mechanism of death

• type of death

In a homicide where the criminal sliced the victim's throat, the mechanism of death is most likely

• exsanguination

• pulmonary arrest

• cerebral hypoxia

• sepsis

What is livor mortis essentially?

• death color
• death stiffness
• death temperature

A woman was in a fatal car crash. Her spleen burst and she bled to death. What was the cause of death?

• car crash

• she bled out

• accidental

• natural

The cooling of the body after death.

• Autolysis

• Algor Mortis

• Liver Mortis