Which can issue death certificates but cannot perform autopsies? (a) coroner (b) pathologist (c) medical examiner (d) both the coroner and the pathologist

Which statement about the rate of decomposition is generally true? (a) The body of an overweight person will decompose faster than the body of a person who was not overweight. (b) Decomposition will occur faster if the body is submerged in water than if it is on land. (c) A buried body decomposes more slowly than a body that is not buried. (d) Ambient temperature does not affect the rate of decomposition.

True or false: Once skin slippage begins, it is impossible to obtain fingerprints.

True or false: Cloudiness of the eyes occurs usually after 2 hours if the eyelids are open.

True or false: Body heat loss speeds up after 12 hours following death.

True or false: Usually, children will lose body heat more slowly than adults.

A forensic anthropologist noted that a set of skeletal remains exhibited the following traits: wide subpubic angle, a sacrum curved outward, no visible growth plates, and porous bones. Which description is consistent with these characteristics? (a) female under 30 with arthritis (b) male over 50 with scoliosis (c) female under 20 with Asian ancestry (d) female over 30 with osteoporosis

The body of a person known to have eaten Mexican food at 12 noon was found dead at 11 P.M. During autopsy, the medical examiner found no food in the stomach but did find evidence of Mexican food in the first half of the small intestine. Based on the postmortem interval estimate from the stomach contents only, which of the following times would be the best estimate of a postmortem interval? (a) between noon and 1 P.M. (b) between 1 P.M. and 2 P.M. (c) between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. (d) between 4 P.M. and 11 P.M.

The Body Farm is a fictional account of the work of a country coroner.

Fingerprints are formed (a) shortly after birth (b) at about two years of age (c) at 10 weeks' gestation (pregnancy) (d) at conception

Spring scale A is attached to the ceiling. A 10.0 kg mass is suspended from the scale. A second spring scale, B, is hanging from a hook at the bottom of the 10.0 kg mass and a 4.0 kg mass hangs from the second spring scale. (a) What are the readings of the two scales if the masses of the scales are negligible? (b) What are the readings if each scale has a mass of 1.0 kg?

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Medical Term: pathologist

Meaning of Suffix : $\rule{4cm}{0.15mm}$

Does HIPAA allow the release of Protected Health Information (PHI) to a coroner?

What are some examples of coroner/medical examiner cases?