Understanding Injuries
Below are our 10 articles in the 'understanding injuries' category:
Asphyxiation is something that many people die off throughout the world and it is something that many people think is simply the act of suffocating or smothering a victim until they can no longer ...
Bite marks have now become one of the many different ways in which an assailant can be identified after an attack on another individual.
Bite Marks and Crime
For the most part bite marks are ...
Blunt force trauma is - as its name would suggest - a severe traumatic episode caused to the body or head with the sudden introduction of a blunt instrument used with great force.
This can ...
Defensive wounds are more often than not to be found on the hands of an individual who has been attacked or involved in a fight.
These wounds, which are normally to be found around the hands, ...
Drowning almost always occurs as a result of an accident.
It is quite a staggering and sobering thought that many of those people who drown each year in the United Kingdom do so because they have ...
What is Electrocution?
Electrocution is the sudden and involuntary introduction of large - or persistent - amounts of electricity into the human body.
Electrocution is something that kills many ...
Entrance and exit wounds are more often than not the result of an individual being shot by an assailant with some kind of firearm. Of course entrance and exit wounds can be made if an individual ...
Ligature marks are those marks made by an item of cord, rope, silk or some such material that has been used for the purposes of strangulation.
Ligature marks come in many different patterns and ...
Suffocation and smothering are two ways of preventing the intake of air into the lungs via the mouth.
Both of these methods have been used throughout the ages as a means of committing murder and ...
Many people throughout the Western world die every year as a result of breathing in toxic gases, which cause their lungs to fail or their hearts to go into cardiac arrest.
These gases, which are ...
