Medical Examiners

2. bacteria that escapes from the body's intestinal tract after the deceased has died are released into the body and begin the process of literally melting the body down.
5. specially trained physiscians who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or violently.
9. the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes.
10. a place where bodies of the deceased are kept until identified and claimed.

1. the catergory which the individual's death best fits into. The five main categories are accidental, homicide, natural, undetermined, and suicide.
3. in an autopsy the medical examiner makes a cut that is shaped like a Y from the left and right upper chest near the shoulder down passed the naval.
4. a location where a crime took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidence is retrieved by law enforcement personnel, crime scene investigators or in rare circumstances, forensic scientists.
6. the conditon or conditions officially determined to have resulted in a human's death.
7. a process of self-digestion where the body's enzymes contained within cells begin to go into a post death meltdown. The process can be sped up by extreme heat and likewise slowed down by extreme cold.
8. inspection and dissection of a body after death to determine the cause of death and manner of death.