Blood Spatter Terminology

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Across
  1. 5. Bloodstain pattern resulting from blood exiting the body under pressure from a breached artery
  2. 7. The deflection of blood after impact with a target surface that results in straining of a second target surface
  3. 8. Blood which has been reduced to a fine spray, as a result of the energy or force applied to it
  4. 9. A surface upon which blood has been deposited
  5. 13. Bloodstain drops created or formed by the force of gravity acting along
  6. 14. That point where force encounters a source of blood
  7. 15. Bloodstain pattern created when blood receives a blow or force resulting in the random dispersion of smaller drips of blood
Down
  1. 1. Rings in blood that result when blood containing air bubbles dries and retains the bubble's circular configuration as a dried outline
  2. 2. A change in the shape and direction of a bloodstain due to the influence of gravity or movement of the object
  3. 3. An absence of strains in an otherwise continuous bloodstain pattern
  4. 4. A drop of blood from which a wave, cast-off, or satellite spatter
  5. 6. The transfer of blood from a moving source onto an unstained surface. Direction of travel may be determined by the feathered edge
  6. 10. A bloodstain pattern which results from blood dripping into blood
  7. 11. The directionality of a bloodstain or pattern which indicates the direction the blood was traveling when it impacted the target surface
  8. 12. A bloodstain pattern created when an object moves through an existing stain, removing and/or altering its appearance