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==Causes of death== | ==Causes of death== | ||
==Environmental== | |||
Includes: | |||
*Hypothermia. | |||
*Hyperthermia. | |||
*Drowning - see [[asphyxial deaths]]. | |||
*Lack of oxygen - see [[asphyxial deaths]]. | |||
===Hypothermia=== | |||
Features:<ref name=>{{cite journal |author=E. E. Türk, J. P. Sperhake, K. Pueschel and Michael Tsokos |title=An approach to the evaluation of fatal hypothermia |journal=Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=31–35 |year=2005 |month= |pmid= |doi= |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/n785314u75m71j8h/fulltext.pdf}}</ref> | |||
*Reddening of exposed skin areas "frost erythema". | |||
*Wischnewski spots. | |||
**Brown/black spots of the gastric mucosa ~ 0.1-0.4 cm; thought to represent pre-mortem/perimortem hemorrhage<ref>{{cite journal |author=Tsokos M, Rothschild MA, Madea B, Rie M, Sperhake JP |title=Histological and immunohistochemical study of Wischnewsky spots in fatal hypothermia |journal=Am J Forensic Med Pathol |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=70–4 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16501354 |doi=10.1097/01.paf.0000202716.06378.91 |url=http://journals.lww.com/amjforensicmedicine/Abstract/2006/03000/Histological_and_Immunohistochemical_Study_of.14.aspx}}</ref> | |||
==Gunshot wounds== | ==Gunshot wounds== | ||