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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. | ||
==Autopsy== | ==Autopsy== | ||
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*Green = hydrogen sulfide. | *Green = hydrogen sulfide. | ||
*Brown = nitrites (methemoglobinemia). | *Brown = nitrites (methemoglobinemia). | ||
===Autopsy terminology=== | |||
*''Gutter butter'' = adipose tissue in a decomp case; looks like butter topping put on popcorn. A Toronto-ism. | |||
*''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. | |||
==Causes of death== | ==Causes of death== | ||