ASM 275 FINAL PAPER STUDY GUIDE
SOLVED QUESTIONS VERIFIED
●● Perimortem Trauma
Answer: occurring at or around the time of death
Sharp edges
Hinging
Fracture lines
Angular broken edges
Hematoma Staining
●● postmortem trauma
Answer: after death
No fracture lines
No green stick and hinge fractures
,Break occur at angles of shaft
Dark inside
●● Blunt force trauma
Answer: injury caused by force over wide area
●● Types of blunt traumas
Answer: Blunt objects
Vehicle crashs
Abrasion
Bites
Falls
●● laceration
Answer: wound or injury with jagged, irregular edges and flesh still
attached near edges
,●● contusion
Answer: bruise
●● Abrasion
Answer: Superficial removal or stretching of skin
●● radiating fracture
Answer: pattern of cracks that move outward from a point of impact
●● concentric fracture
Answer: circular pattern of cracks that forms around a point of impact
●● buttressing
Answer: Blows at the cranial cause fractures around
Mid-occipital
Posterior temporal
Anterior Temporal
, Midfrontal
●● LeFort I
Answer: most common, low horizonal fracture
●● LeFort 2 Fracture
Answer: Blunt force around nose, entire midface separation
●● LeFort 3 Fracture
Answer: Upper face, seperation of entire face
●● What affects damage caused by blunt force trauma
Answer: Size, shape, weight, force, angle, intent
●● Bullet Caliber
Answer: Diameter of bullet
●● Bullet guage
Answer: Weight of a lead ball Ex.
12 gauge - can hold 1/12th of a pound
SOLVED QUESTIONS VERIFIED
●● Perimortem Trauma
Answer: occurring at or around the time of death
Sharp edges
Hinging
Fracture lines
Angular broken edges
Hematoma Staining
●● postmortem trauma
Answer: after death
No fracture lines
No green stick and hinge fractures
,Break occur at angles of shaft
Dark inside
●● Blunt force trauma
Answer: injury caused by force over wide area
●● Types of blunt traumas
Answer: Blunt objects
Vehicle crashs
Abrasion
Bites
Falls
●● laceration
Answer: wound or injury with jagged, irregular edges and flesh still
attached near edges
,●● contusion
Answer: bruise
●● Abrasion
Answer: Superficial removal or stretching of skin
●● radiating fracture
Answer: pattern of cracks that move outward from a point of impact
●● concentric fracture
Answer: circular pattern of cracks that forms around a point of impact
●● buttressing
Answer: Blows at the cranial cause fractures around
Mid-occipital
Posterior temporal
Anterior Temporal
, Midfrontal
●● LeFort I
Answer: most common, low horizonal fracture
●● LeFort 2 Fracture
Answer: Blunt force around nose, entire midface separation
●● LeFort 3 Fracture
Answer: Upper face, seperation of entire face
●● What affects damage caused by blunt force trauma
Answer: Size, shape, weight, force, angle, intent
●● Bullet Caliber
Answer: Diameter of bullet
●● Bullet guage
Answer: Weight of a lead ball Ex.
12 gauge - can hold 1/12th of a pound
