Forensic Pathology Quiz Review

When a death occurs outside of a hospital, it is NOT the job of the medical examiner to...

• Identify the body

• Collect the body for examination and autopsy

• Determine the time of death (if needed)

• Attempt to save the person

• Determine the cause and manner of death

Medical examiners are also called Forensic

• Pathologist

• Entomologist

• Anthropologist

• Medicalist

Which of the following is NOT a possible cause of death as classified by a Medical Examiner

• Natural Causes

• Accidental

• Suicide

• Homicide

• Gunshot wound

Match the following

• Color of Death

• Livor Mortis

• Temperature of death

• Algor Mortis

• Fixed 8-12 hours after death

• Rigor Mortis

Match the following

• Specific injury that leads to death

• Manner of death

• How the death occurred

• Cause of death

• determination of how and injury or disease leads to death

• In absentia

• Without a body present

• Mechanism of death

Reorder the following

• Closed eyes become cloudy

• Rigor Mortis is set

• Lividity is set

• Body cools to 28 C

Match the following

• 8-12 Hours

• Cloudy Eye (Open)

• 1-2 Hours

• Cloudy Eyes (Closed)

• 6-8 Hours

• Rigor Mortis is Set

• 24 Hours

• Lividity is Set

A body cools by how many degrees celsius during the first 12 hours?

• 0.5

• 0.4

• 0.75

• 1

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A body cools by how many degrees celsius after the first 12 hours?

• 0.5

• 0.4

• 0.75

• 1

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A body was found with lividity present, but when the area is pushed a pale spot appears. How long has the person been deceased?

• 1-2 hrs

• 2-6 hrs

• 6-8 hrs

• 8+ hrs