Understanding Injuries...
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Asphyxiation
Asphyxiation is something that many people die of throughout the world and it is something that many people think is simply the act of suffocating or smothering a...
Bite Marks
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
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Blunt Force Trauma
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...
Defensive Wounds
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...
Drowning and Forensics
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...
Electrocution
Electrocution is the sudden and involuntary introduction of large - or persistent - amounts of electricity into the human body.
Electrocution is something that...
Entrance and Exit Wounds
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...
Ligature Marks
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...
Suffocating and Smothering
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...
Toxic Gases
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...
