Exam: 06.07 Module Exam

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Forensic pathologists and anthropologists are usually able to identify the exact moment in time that death occurs.
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Forensic pathologists and anthropologists are usually able to identify the exact moment in time that death occurs.
False
Heavy meals can take up to six hours to digest fully in the stomach.
True
The type of insects and the stage of the insect's life can give some indication of how long a body has been dead.
True
What finding is an example of an indicative act?
Determining that the person had taken a shower right before they died
Investigators arrive quickly to the scene of a murder. They take the temperature of the victim to try to determine a cause of death and are surprised to find a reading of 100º F. What might explain this reading?
The victim had a fever at the time of death.
Investigators are trying to determine the time of death for a corpse. Which factor would not be important in determining time of death?
The body having no identifiable cause of death
Investigators are studying a corpse who died standing up and note dark discoloration on the soles of their feet beginning to become apparent. Based on that information, what time of death might investigators suspect?
More than 12 hours ago
What is the settling of blood in the lowest parts of the body called?
Livor mortis
What would interfere the most with using post-mortem cooling to determine time of death?
A victim dying in a very cold freezer
Investigators find a murder victim inside a closed-up house on a hot, steamy summer's day. The victim's body has just begun to show rigor mortis in the face and neck, but their limbs are still pliable. What does this possibly indicate to the investigators?
The time of death happened very recently, in the past two to six hours.
If a body is buried, how long will the process of complete skeletonization take?Eight yearsResearch shows that a body left outside will generally stay complete until about a year after death.falseForensic anthropologists are trying to determine the age of a male skeleton that has been uncovered. They conclude that he must have been between 16 and 19 judging by the measurement of his?Teeth and long bones are good indicators of age in children; ribs and joints are better for adults.trueMedical autopsies are performed when the cause of death is known but a forensic autopsy happens when the cause of death is suspicious.true