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Select the two best answers that apply – Change in pH:

Select the two best answers that apply – Algor mortis:

The antemortem settling of blood in dependent tissues:

The decomposition of proteins, regardless of the type of bacteria, is called:

Select the two best answers that apply – Postmortem stain:

Bodies cool more slowly in running water than in stagnant fluids

Postmortem cellular death follows somatic death.

The intensity of rigor mortis (how rigid a body may get) depends on the amount of ______ in the body.

There are multiple abrasions on the leg of the deceased.  You do not think this area was sufficiently reached by vascular injection.  Therefore, you prepare a pack, made of absorbent material saturated with preservative chemicals, and place it in direct contact with each of the abraded areas.  This is an example of:

The postmortem increase in body temperature: