Difference between revisions of "Gunshot wounds"

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 ==Accounting==
-Number of entrance wound should equal the number of exit wounds -- if it doesn't there are:
+Number of entrance wound should equal the number of exit wounds -- the explanation is:
-*Bullets in the body,
+#Bullets still in the body.
-*"Tandem bullets" -- two bullets entered at the same place,
+#"Tandem bullets" -- two bullets entered (or exited) at the same place.
-*Secondary projectile -- the bullet hit something, e.g. bone, and made it fly out of the body,
+#Secondary projectile -- a bullet hit something, e.g. bone, and made it fly out of the body.
-*You missed an entrance or exit,
+#Pathologist missed an entrance ''or'' exit.
-**Places to look:
+#*Places to look:
-***Below chin (common in suicides),
+#**Below chin (common in suicides).
-***In mouth (common in suicides),
+#**In the mouth (common in suicides).
-***Back,
+#**Ears.
-*** ... anywhere the sun don't shine.
+#**Back.
 ==Firearm projectiles==