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What is the name for using temperature of the dead body to determine time of death?

• Rigor Mortis

• Livor Mortis

• Algor Mortis

• Decompositon

Normal body temperature in ^oF is

• 99.6

• 97.6

• 98.6

• 100.6

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What is the name for the stiffness of the body to determine time of death?

• Rigor Mortis

• Livor Mortis

• Algor Mortis

• Decomposition

How many hours after death does the body become completely stiff?

• 6 hours

• 12 hours

• 18 hours

• 24 hours

Which part of the body would become stiff the last?

• Chest muscles

• Arm muscles

• Leg muscles

• Jaw muscles

Why does the dead body eventually become loose again, lose its stiffness?

• The muscle tissue becomes cold

• The muscle tissue starts to decompose

• The muscle tissue becomes warm

• The muscle tissue is eaten by maggots

Which best describes a body that is found in an advanced state of decay

• metabolized

• marbleized

• polarized

• skeletonized

the stiffening of the skeletal muscles shortly after death

• livor mortis
• autolysis
• rigor mortis
• algor mortis

the decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms, resulting in production of foul-smelling matter

• decomposition
• death
• autolysis
• putrefaction

the process of rotting and break down

• rigor mortis
• decomposition
• livor mortis
• putrefaction