FIS 201 EXAM 2 MOHR UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a pathologist?
Answer:
determines the cause of disease or trauma based on appearance and chemistry of bodies or tissues
Question:
2. What are the two types of death determiners?
Answer:
medical examiner and coroner
Question:
3. What is a medical examin-er?
Answer:
-elected by jurisdiction -must be an MD, preferably a pathologist
Question:
4. What is a coroner?
Answer:
-elected by jurisdiction --education/training optional
Question:
5. What is a death investiga-tor?
Answer:
investigate deaths under the natural jurisdiction of the coro-ner/medical examiner. They collect the
scene context needed to determine cause of death
Question:
6. What does an autopsy technician do?
Answer:
wash and sew the body
Question:
7. What is the manner of death?
Answer:
*how* the person died
Question:
8. What are the 5 manners of death?
Answer:
-natural -accidental -homicidal -suicidal -undetermined/unclassified
Question:
9. What is the cause of death?
, Answer:
*Why* the person died
Question:
10. What are some examples of accidental manner of death?
Answer:
-poisoning -motor vehicle accidents -falls -suffocation -drowning -burns and fires -firearms mishaps
-natural phenomena -electrocution and explosions -struck by another person
Question:
11. What are some examples of homicidal manner of death?
Answer:
-intentional killing by another person
Question:
12. What are some examples of suicide?
Answer:
-intentional self-harm leading to death: -firearm -suffocation -poisoning
Question:
13. what are some examples of undermined?
Answer:
insufficient or conflicting data
Question:
14. What is an autopsy?
Answer:
determine of manner and cause of death
Question:
15. What happens during an external examination?
Answer:
-body is photographed -spot identifying features: scars, tattoos, and prostheses -physical features are
examined: gender, ethnicity, hair, and eye color
Question:
16. What happens during the internal examination?
Answer:
-open body -remove organ and visually inspect -weigh -section
Question:
17. What happens during the closure part of an autopsy?
Answer:
-organs may be replaced -skin is folded back -stitched -body bag
Question:
18. What is livor mortis?
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a pathologist?
Answer:
determines the cause of disease or trauma based on appearance and chemistry of bodies or tissues
Question:
2. What are the two types of death determiners?
Answer:
medical examiner and coroner
Question:
3. What is a medical examin-er?
Answer:
-elected by jurisdiction -must be an MD, preferably a pathologist
Question:
4. What is a coroner?
Answer:
-elected by jurisdiction --education/training optional
Question:
5. What is a death investiga-tor?
Answer:
investigate deaths under the natural jurisdiction of the coro-ner/medical examiner. They collect the
scene context needed to determine cause of death
Question:
6. What does an autopsy technician do?
Answer:
wash and sew the body
Question:
7. What is the manner of death?
Answer:
*how* the person died
Question:
8. What are the 5 manners of death?
Answer:
-natural -accidental -homicidal -suicidal -undetermined/unclassified
Question:
9. What is the cause of death?
, Answer:
*Why* the person died
Question:
10. What are some examples of accidental manner of death?
Answer:
-poisoning -motor vehicle accidents -falls -suffocation -drowning -burns and fires -firearms mishaps
-natural phenomena -electrocution and explosions -struck by another person
Question:
11. What are some examples of homicidal manner of death?
Answer:
-intentional killing by another person
Question:
12. What are some examples of suicide?
Answer:
-intentional self-harm leading to death: -firearm -suffocation -poisoning
Question:
13. what are some examples of undermined?
Answer:
insufficient or conflicting data
Question:
14. What is an autopsy?
Answer:
determine of manner and cause of death
Question:
15. What happens during an external examination?
Answer:
-body is photographed -spot identifying features: scars, tattoos, and prostheses -physical features are
examined: gender, ethnicity, hair, and eye color
Question:
16. What happens during the internal examination?
Answer:
-open body -remove organ and visually inspect -weigh -section
Question:
17. What happens during the closure part of an autopsy?
Answer:
-organs may be replaced -skin is folded back -stitched -body bag
Question:
18. What is livor mortis?
