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cerebral bleed
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***Bridges are fine strands of tissue that cross the long axis of the skin defect.
***Bridges are fine strands of tissue that cross the long axis of the skin defect.
****You can think of the wound as partially "sutured" by the bridges of tissue.
****You can think of the wound as partially "sutured" by the bridges of tissue.
===Terminology - not categorized===
''Gutter butter'' = adipose tissue in a decomp case; looks like butter topping put on popcorn.
''Gutter blood'' = blood in the empty thorax - after extraction of the organ block.
''Tardieu spots'' = postmortem hypostatic hemorrhages;<ref name=pmid19901802>{{cite journal |author=Pollanen MS, Perera SD, Clutterbuck DJ |title=Hemorrhagic lividity of the neck: controlled induction of postmortem hypostatic hemorrhages |journal=Am J Forensic Med Pathol |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=322–6 |year=2009 |month=December |pmid=19901802 |doi=10.1097/PAF.0b013e3181c17ec2 |url=}}</ref> look like large petechiae - in dependent areas.


==Autopsy==
==Autopsy==
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***Haemorrhagic.
***Haemorrhagic.
***Thrombotic (more common than haemorrhagic).
***Thrombotic (more common than haemorrhagic).
==Cerebral hemorrhage==
{{main|Cerebral hematoma}}
Classification:
*Epidural hematoma.
*Subdural hematoma.
*Subarachnoid hematoma.


==Forensic entomology==
==Forensic entomology==
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