lunes, 19 de febrero de 2007

Second Part


4. What methods are commonly used to find the time of death?
* Rate Method

* Concurrence method

5. What factors are considered in Algor Mortis?
1. The "size" of the body because if it is too big, it loses heat slowly.
2. “Clothing and coverings” because the body can lose the heat by radiation, convection and evaporation.
3. Movement and humidity of the air.
4. Immersion in water.

6. How does the environment affect the time of death?
It is because many elements that are in the environment like water, air, temperature, insects, etc. produce that the body lose the heat fast or slow.

7. What can you tell about the different methods of temperature reading of the body? Do they make a difference in the results?
The methods for read the temperature are the abdominal and the rectum (it is used if the body wasn’t violated). And with these methods, we can compare the temperature of the body with the environment and know the factor that modified the results.

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