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Passive Stains Drops, Flows, and Pools, results from gravity acting
object coming in contact with existing blood stains
Transfer Stains
and leaving wipes, smears, or pattern transfers
blood projecting through air and usually seen as
Impact Stains splatters. (May also include gushes, splashes, and
arterial spurts.)
Includes forward splatter from exit wound and back
Gunshot Splatter splatter from entrance wound. Typically: Forward is
a fine mist and the back is larger, fewer drops.
Results when an object sung in arc flings blood onto
nearby surfaces. Tail points in direction of motion
Cast-Off
and the number of arcs can show minimum number
of blows.
Spurt of blood when a major artery is severed with
Arterial Spray
new pattern created each time the heart pumps
blood from an internal injury mixing with air from
lungs being expelled through the nose, mouth, or
Expired Splatter
an injury to airways or lungs, forms a very fine mist
and some blood stains are latent.
Sharp Force Injuries Less blood being deposited on the instrument,
(Stabbing) smaller more linear patterns of stains
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Blunt Force Injuries larger surface area will collect more blood,
(Hitting or Beating) producing drops of various sizes.
Mist like splatter caused by bullets entering and
Gunshot Injuries
exiting a body.
evidence that might be expected to degrade or
Transient Evidence
disappear within a particular time frame
Exsanguination Bleeding to death
Sharp Instruments Make incised wounds
Produce lacerations (deep cut or tear in flesh or
Blunt Objects
skin)
Altor Mortis Cooling of body after death
How long Lividity Lasts 36 hours
Discoloration of the body after death. Takes minutes
Lividity
to an hour
Stiffening of a body after death. It takes about 4
Rigor Mortis
hours after death
Classified as Traumatic Suicidal, Homicidal, Accidental
Death
Natural, Accidental, Homicidal, Suicidal,
5 Manners of Death
Undetermined
Manner of Death The Fashion of how the death came to be
Mechanism of death The fashion of how the death came to be
Considered Trauma Thermal, Mechanical, Chemical
Number of permanent 32
teeth found in a typical
human mouth
Most likely be the most A fresh bite into tissues containing lots of muscle
clear and distinct bite
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Terms in this set (54)
Passive Stains Drops, Flows, and Pools, results from gravity acting
object coming in contact with existing blood stains
Transfer Stains
and leaving wipes, smears, or pattern transfers
blood projecting through air and usually seen as
Impact Stains splatters. (May also include gushes, splashes, and
arterial spurts.)
Includes forward splatter from exit wound and back
Gunshot Splatter splatter from entrance wound. Typically: Forward is
a fine mist and the back is larger, fewer drops.
Results when an object sung in arc flings blood onto
nearby surfaces. Tail points in direction of motion
Cast-Off
and the number of arcs can show minimum number
of blows.
Spurt of blood when a major artery is severed with
Arterial Spray
new pattern created each time the heart pumps
blood from an internal injury mixing with air from
lungs being expelled through the nose, mouth, or
Expired Splatter
an injury to airways or lungs, forms a very fine mist
and some blood stains are latent.
Sharp Force Injuries Less blood being deposited on the instrument,
(Stabbing) smaller more linear patterns of stains
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Blunt Force Injuries larger surface area will collect more blood,
(Hitting or Beating) producing drops of various sizes.
Mist like splatter caused by bullets entering and
Gunshot Injuries
exiting a body.
evidence that might be expected to degrade or
Transient Evidence
disappear within a particular time frame
Exsanguination Bleeding to death
Sharp Instruments Make incised wounds
Produce lacerations (deep cut or tear in flesh or
Blunt Objects
skin)
Altor Mortis Cooling of body after death
How long Lividity Lasts 36 hours
Discoloration of the body after death. Takes minutes
Lividity
to an hour
Stiffening of a body after death. It takes about 4
Rigor Mortis
hours after death
Classified as Traumatic Suicidal, Homicidal, Accidental
Death
Natural, Accidental, Homicidal, Suicidal,
5 Manners of Death
Undetermined
Manner of Death The Fashion of how the death came to be
Mechanism of death The fashion of how the death came to be
Considered Trauma Thermal, Mechanical, Chemical
Number of permanent 32
teeth found in a typical
human mouth
Most likely be the most A fresh bite into tissues containing lots of muscle
clear and distinct bite
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