Forensic Pathology
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Pathology is the medical specialty concerned with examining body
tissues and fluids to contribute to the diagnosis of disease. There are
two types of pathology, anatomic and clinical. So what does forensics
have to do with pathology? What is ? A forensic
pathologist is a specialized branch of p ....
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.... stage of rigor mortis, take body temperature
to determine time of death, examine area around body, determine how and
when the body will be moved, and make preliminary sketches and notes.
There are numerous ways a person can die. A forensic
pathologist's main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they
look at the proximate cause of death. That is the initial injury that led
to a sequence of events which caused the death of the victim. Second they
look at immediate cause of d ....
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