| 1. The County Medical Examiners - Pugilistic Burn Postures |
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Carbonized extremities cooked and charred Burst organs jellified simmering in boiling lard Smoking slab of blackened burnt meat Scent of...
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| 2. The County Medical Examiners - Organ Harvest (the Anatomical Gift Act) |
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Before the effluvial corpse is consumed By gastronomic decay and suppuration The stiffening husk is surveyed and tested For suitability of organ...
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| 3. The County Medical Examiners - Medicocriminal Entomology |
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When unidentified remains are relinquished to our care That are so decayed and liquefied as to make diagnosis quite a chore When the putrescent...
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| 4. The County Medical Examiners - Livier Mortis... Gravitational Blood Pooling |
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Extravasated hemoglobular vitality Vascular death, hematological finale The postmortem settling of blood called lividity A fascinating aspect of...
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| 5. The County Medical Examiners - Algor Mortis... The Linear Rate Of Cadaveric Cooling |
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Ravaged, torn, and punctured-the carcass oozes from multiple wounds Avulsed and sliced, the dermis weeps pus and purge fluid with clear, viscous...
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| 6. The County Medical Examiners - Y-shaped Thoracoabdominalincision |
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...Alphabetic diagram... ...Of the gross exam... Medical examiners are detectives, who forensically sift through a body of evidence It's rarely...
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| 7. The County Medical Examiners - Vitreous Humor |
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Between the deceased eyeball's crystalline lens and retina A clear gel-like mass that constitutes 80% of the eye This volume of lubricious fluid...
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| 8. The County Medical Examiners - Autopsy Suite |
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My beloved autopsy ward, the product of hospital architects Inspected and approved by the College of American Pathologists Adjacent to the morgue...
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| 9. The County Medical Examiners - Epicedium For Epidermal Slippage |
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...Festering tumefied remains... ...Stinking upon the dissection block... ...Cellular structure autolyzed... ...Dermal adhesion run amok... ...
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| 10. The County Medical Examiners - Riggormortis Posthumous Muscular Rigidity |
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The tepid carcass examinately reclines on my table Its peculiar muscular activity, rigor mortis, works in my favor Determining PMI through rigid,...
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