Across
- 3. human decomposition stage that produces gases that rupture the skin
- 8. pooling of blood in the tissues after death
- 10. manner of death where the fatal outcome was unintentional
- 12. time that rigor mortis starts after death
- 14. stiffening of the skeletal muscles after death
- 15. white areas within visible lividity
- 18. the exact time that the victim drew their last breath
- 19. -of death: defined as how the death came about
Down
- 1. the cooling of the body after death
- 2. where lividity would be if someone died laying on their back
- 4. time after death when the body is the most stiff
- 5. when lividity is permanent
- 6. where stiffness begins
- 7. drug classification
- 9. temperatures that speed up the livor, rigor, and algor mortis processes
- 10. environmental temperature
- 11. parts of the body that blood settles into as the body decomposes
- 13. -of death: immediate reason for a person's death
- 16. -mortem: after death
- 17. where scientists study decomposing bodies