Anth 2014 Exam 3 2025/2026 Exam
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Trauma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔injury caused to living tissue by an outside force
Antemortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔before death - may help to identify someone
*person lives through trauma & is able to function
Perimortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔at or around the time of death - can help
invesigators evaluate violence against the individual
*this is what investigators really care about
Postmortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔after death - must be distinguished from
perimortem trauma
,*sometimes fuzzy line between perimortem & postmortem
*different color than where other fractures are equals postmortem b/c can
tell environmental factors at play
Cause of Death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔those factors that prompt the two signs of
death:
1) breathing stops
2) heart stops
ex: disease, accident, intentional trauma, malnutrition, advanced age
Manner of Death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ways in which a person dies; 5 important
factors:
1) homicide
2) suicide
3) accident
4) natural
5) unknown
, forensic anth. do not determine cause or manner of death - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔only pathologists make that determination based on what forensic anth.
told them
forces that cause trauma (5) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-tension
-compression
-torsion
-bending
-shearing
tension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pulling force, dislocation
compression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pushing force, skull... shape of fracturing
instrument
torsion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔twisting, spiral, long bones, child abuse
bending - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔most common, greenstick, butterfly, Parry
shearing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Colles' fracture, skateboard
types of trauma (3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-high velocity
-blunt force
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
Latest Update
Trauma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔injury caused to living tissue by an outside force
Antemortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔before death - may help to identify someone
*person lives through trauma & is able to function
Perimortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔at or around the time of death - can help
invesigators evaluate violence against the individual
*this is what investigators really care about
Postmortem - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔after death - must be distinguished from
perimortem trauma
,*sometimes fuzzy line between perimortem & postmortem
*different color than where other fractures are equals postmortem b/c can
tell environmental factors at play
Cause of Death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔those factors that prompt the two signs of
death:
1) breathing stops
2) heart stops
ex: disease, accident, intentional trauma, malnutrition, advanced age
Manner of Death - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ways in which a person dies; 5 important
factors:
1) homicide
2) suicide
3) accident
4) natural
5) unknown
, forensic anth. do not determine cause or manner of death - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔only pathologists make that determination based on what forensic anth.
told them
forces that cause trauma (5) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-tension
-compression
-torsion
-bending
-shearing
tension - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pulling force, dislocation
compression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pushing force, skull... shape of fracturing
instrument
torsion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔twisting, spiral, long bones, child abuse
bending - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔most common, greenstick, butterfly, Parry
shearing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Colles' fracture, skateboard
types of trauma (3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-high velocity
-blunt force
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
