Forensics Unit 3 Notes

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Drugs
________ can speed (stimulants) or slow (depressants)
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Environmental factors
________: drugs, fever, ambient temperature, wind, body fat, and clothing.
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Autopsy
________: literally means: to see for oneself, only done for suspicious and unnatural deaths.
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ocular fluid
What is cleanest? Answer with a single words or term.
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Lividity
________ occurs faster if hot and slower if cold (important to record environmental conditions)
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Manner
________: Natural Causes, Accidental, Suicidal, Homicidal, or Undetermined.
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Death
________: a process not an instantaneous event, irreversible cessation of circulation of blood; cessation of brain activity.
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Temperature
________: hot- faster (clothing, fever, direct sunlight)
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Mechanism
________: The specific change in the body that brought about cessation of life.
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Level of potassium ion K+
Vitreous humor potassium. ________ increases as the body decays.