FORS 1390 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ultimate Tensile Strength, Filter Paper, Starch
10 Nov 2016
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Pubic symphysis: area on pelvis where the right and left pelvis halves join in the front of the body**** Can detect age by: growth of ossification centers, newborns have 405 centers and adult usually has 206. Defined as the force that pulls the surface molecules of a liquid toward its interior, decreasing the surface area and causing the liquid to resist penetration. Assists the investigator to better understand what took place and what could not have taken place during a bloodshed event. Expirated: accumulation of blood is forcefully expelled through nose or mouth to free the airways. Transfer: when an object wet with blood comes into contact with a secondary object. Void: absences of bloodstains in otherwise continuous patterns of staining. Castoff: created with subsequent blows to the same general area where a wound has occurred and blood has accumulated. Red to reddish brown and eventually to black.
