Forensics Unit 3 Notes

Drugs

________ can speed (stimulants) or slow (depressants)

Environmental factors

________: drugs, fever, ambient temperature, wind, body fat, and clothing.

Autopsy

________: literally means: to see for oneself, only done for suspicious and unnatural deaths.

ocular fluid

What is cleanest? Answer with a single words or term.

Lividity

________ occurs faster if hot and slower if cold (important to record environmental conditions)

Manner

________: Natural Causes, Accidental, Suicidal, Homicidal, or Undetermined.

Death

________: a process not an instantaneous event, irreversible cessation of circulation of blood; cessation of brain activity.

Temperature

________: hot- faster (clothing, fever, direct sunlight)

Mechanism

________: The specific change in the body that brought about cessation of life.

Level of potassium ion K+

Vitreous humor potassium. ________ increases as the body decays.