Autopsy

A _________________an injury or wounds that breaks open the skin.

• bruise

• laceration

• fracture

• swollen limb

The _____________ is the time between death and discovery of the body.

• post-mortem interval

• peri-mortem interval

• anti-mortem interval

• time of day

A _____________ may be an elected official whose job is to identify the body, notify the family, collect and return personal items of the deceased, and issue a death certificate.

• medical examiner

• forensic scientist

• sheriff

• coroner

___________________ is the stiffness of the body after death.

• algor mortis

• livor mortis

• rigor mortis

• pallor mortis

The __________________ is the free floating bone in the neck; which if broken, it can suggest strangulation.

• sternum

• thoracic vertebrae

• hyoid

• esophagus

_______________ is when the tissues of the body break down into liquid chemicals as bacteria, insects, and fungi digest them.

• reconstitution

• decomposition

• resurrection

• livor mortis

The ________________ is a physician who oversees the death scene and performs autopsies.

• medical examiner

• mortician

• coroner

• cardiologist

______________ is the breaking of capillaries beneath the skin which causes internal bleeding.

• liver mortis

• algor mortis

• bruising

• laceration

A(n) ______________ is a medical examination to determine the manner and cause of death.

• autopsy

• autobiopsy

• biopsy

• embalming

_________________ is when enough individual cells die that the heart or brain stops functioning.

• coma

• death

• unconscious

• autopsy