Forensic Science and Human Body Systems Quiz

What is an autopsy authorized by a coroner or medical examiner, done in cases of sudden or unexpected deaths, with no family permission required called?

• legal time of death

• Clinical Autopsy

• Forensic Autopsy

• internal autopsy

What is the pooling of the blood due to gravity in tissues after death, resulting in a purple / reddish color to the skin called?

• rigor mortis

• livor mortis

• legal time of death

• estimated time of death

Which of the following are the categories: homicide, suicide, accidental, natural, undetermined?

• Manners of death

• cause of death

• legal time of death

• physiological time of death

What are bones and joints classified as?

• nervous system organs

• immune system organs

• skeletal system organs

• integumentary system organs

What is the time when the decedent's vital functions actually ceased called?

• legal time of death

• physiological time of death

• estimated time of death

• rigor mortis

Which organs include lymph nodes, vessels, spleen, skin, and various white blood cells?

• nervous system organs

• immune system organs

• integumentary system organs

• endocrine system organs

Which organs include the heart, blood vessels, and blood?

• nervous system organs

• immune system organs

• circulatory system organs

• integumentary system organs

What type of autopsy is usually performed in hospitals to determine the cause of death for study purposes?

• Forensic Autopsy

• Clinical Autopsy

• external autopsy

• internal autopsy

Which of the following includes skeletal muscles, smooth muscles, and cardiac muscles?

• nervous system organs

• immune system organs

• muscular system organs

• integumentary system organs

What is the process called that determines the mode and cause of death by assessing trauma or illness to organs within the body using the Rokitansky method?

• internal autopsy

• external autopsy

• Clinical Autopsy

• Forensic Autopsy