Blood Spatter Terminology

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Across
  1. 4. Bloodstain pattern created when a wet, bloody surface comes in contact with a second surface
  2. 7. Blood directed back towards the source of energy or force that caused the spatter
  3. 9. Bloodstain pattern created when an object moves through an existing stain, removing and/or altering it's appearance
  4. 11. The transfer of blood from a moving source onto an unstained surface
  5. 12. Pattern created when blood is thrown from a blood-bearing object in motion
  6. 14. Bloodstain pattern created when blood receives a blow or force resulting in the random dispersion of smaller drops of blood
  7. 15. An absence of stains in an otherwise continuous bloodstain pattern
Down
  1. 1. Bloodstain that consists of only it's outer periphery, the central area having already been removed by wiping or flaking after liquid blood has either partially or completely dried
  2. 2. Bloodstain pattern that is produced by blood released under pressure as opposed to impact
  3. 3. Bloodstain pattern resulting from blood exiting the body under pressure from a breached artery
  4. 5. Blood which has been reduced to a fine spray as a result of the energy or force applied to it
  5. 6. Bloodstain pattern which results from blood dripping into blood
  6. 8. A change in the shape and direction of a bloodstain due to the influence of gravity or movement of the object
  7. 10. Bloodstain drop(s) created or formed by the force of gravity
  8. 13. The acute angle formed between the direction of a blood drop and the plane of the surface it strikes