Egyptian Board Forensic Medicine - independent subject foundations flashcards
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- Underlying cause
- The disease or injury initiating the medically coherent sequence that ultimately resulted in the death under investigation.
- Mechanism of death
- The physiological process leading to death, which should not substitute for identifying the underlying disease or injury.
- Postmortem interval
- An estimated interval since death that requires consideration of method assumptions, environmental conditions and uncertainty.
- Lividity
- Dependent postmortem discoloration related to blood distribution within vessels, interpreted with position, pressure and subsequent changes.
- Rigor mortis
- Postmortem muscular stiffness associated with biochemical changes, whose timing varies with numerous intrinsic and environmental factors.
- Adipocere
- A wax-like postmortem transformation of fat that can occur under suitable conditions and complicate simple timing assumptions.
- Mummification
- Postmortem dehydration and preservation favored by appropriate environmental conditions rather than one universal chronological threshold.
- Tissue bridging
- Residual strands across a wound that support a blunt-force laceration when interpreted with the surrounding tissue features.
- Patterned injury
- An injury reproducing aspects of a contacting surface without necessarily establishing one unique object or complete event sequence.
- Stippling
- Embedded particulate effects near a firearm wound whose interpretation depends on circumstances and appropriate specialist evaluation.
- Soot
- Combustion residue whose distribution may inform a fire or firearm investigation but requires contextual interpretation.
- Petechiae
- Small hemorrhages that may occur in multiple circumstances and are not independent proof of an asphyxial death.
- Drowning
- Respiratory impairment associated with immersion or submersion, requiring integration of circumstances and medical evidence in a death investigation.
- Toxidrome
- A recognizable pattern of clinical effects that can guide urgent assessment without proving one specific chemical exposure.
- Redistribution
- Postmortem movement of substances between tissues and fluids that can change measured concentrations and complicate interpretation.
- Confirmatory analysis
- A sufficiently specific analytical method used to investigate a screening result and identify an analyte more reliably.
- Chain of custody
- Documented identification and transfer history of evidence, complementing rather than replacing correct collection, storage and analytical controls.
- Random-match probability
- A probability concerning an unrelated profile match under stated assumptions, distinct from the probability of guilt or innocence.
- Stochastic effect
- Random variation that can become important in low-template analysis and influence interpretation of incomplete genetic results.
- Peer review
- Structured evaluation by another suitably qualified person that can reveal discrepancies, unsupported inferences and systematic process weaknesses.