Anoxic anoxia: This is mainly %%due to mechanical asphyxia leading to defective oxygenation in lungs.%%
Anemic anoxia: This is mainly due to the %%reduced oxygen carrying capacity of blood%%.
Histotoxic anoxia: This is mainly due to the %%depression of tissue oxidation%%.
Stagnant anoxia: This is mainly due to the %%inefficient circulation of blood%%.
Clinical Features of Asphyxia:
Death and the Indian Penal Code (IPC): Section 46, IPC, states the fact that the word ‘death’ denotes death of a human being unless the contrary appears from this context.
Disposal of the Body: During cremation of a dead body immediately after somatic death, spontaneous movements of hand or feet may be observed in the cadaver on the funeral pyre, creating an impression that the person is not actually dead and the disposal is premature.
Tissue and Organ Transplantation: Viability of transplantable tissues and organs falls sharply after somatic death; a liver must be removed within 15 minutes, kidney within 45 minutes and heart within an hour.
Question of Presumption of Survivorship: When two or more persons die at almost the same time, or by a common accident, the question may arise who survived the longest; and if no direct evidence on this point is available the question becomes one of presumption of survivorship.
Issuing of Death Certificate: This is issued after everything are tested; the cause of death are determined; and the important information about the dead is provided.
The process of skeletonization takes varied time under varied conditions.
Mummification — a modified process of putrefaction, wherein the water content in the dead body gets evaporated making it dehydrated or desiccated and shriveled up, the natural appearances and features of the body are retained.
Factors influencing: Body in dry place with warm, dry air circulation.
Appearance: Whole body gets converted into a hard, dry, leathery mass and the features will remain as they are.
Time required—several weeks.
Embalming: This process renders the proteins to get coagulated, tissues fixed, organs bleached and hardened, blood coagulated and converted into pinkish-brown mass.
Freezing: If a body is kept in deep freeze or amidst thick layers of ice, it can remain in good preservation for a long time.
Taxidermy: This process can be adapted for preservation of the dead body, especially when it is to be taken from one place to another for burial or to avoid putrefaction before cremation or burial, which might take some time.
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