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Trauma
Term | Definition |
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Cause of death | events that prompted death ex. heart stop beatings/ stop breathing |
Manner of death | the way a person died |
trauma | Injury caused of living tissue by outside force |
antemortem | before death, did injury happen before death |
perimortem | around or near death |
postmortem | how long has been since death: |
simple fracture | broken into two segments |
comminuted fracture | break result of multiple segments |
nfraction | part of the fraction area still attached to bone at unnatural angle |
pathological fracture | breaks that are in bones weakened by disease |
Stress fractures | breaks come from overuse |
tension | force pulls the bone, usually along long axis. |
compression | force pushed down on bone |
torsion | wisting corse, one bone is usually stationary, other end trauma |
bending | impacts side of structure at aproxx. right angles to long axis adults |
Shearing | immobilized segment of bone , force applied to the side |