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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== | ||