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cause, violent, or unnatural, the coroner decides whether to hold a post-mortem examination and, if necessary, an inquest. The majority of deaths are...

on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse. A post mortem examination is performed by a medical examiner or forensic pathologist, usually...

possible to determine if a fracture occurred ante-mortem (before death), peri-mortem (at the time of death), or post-mortem (after death). Ante-mortem fractures...

also used to permanently record the features of unknown corpses for purposes of identification. This function was later replaced by post-mortem photography...

A vegetative state (VS) or post-coma unresponsiveness (PCU) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of...

established a special task force to investigate the murder. Zayn's body was then buried on December 7 after the post-mortem examination. The area where...

under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests. They are necessarily trained...

Waitākere Ranges around 19 km (12 mi) west of central Auckland. A post-mortem examination was done on 10 December. Further investigations of the area where...

under a different name. Police reports established that she had died on 7 February. A post-mortem examination determined that she died due to exsanguination...

dentists may make their determinations by using radiographs, ante- and post-mortem photographs, and DNA analysis. Another type of evidence that may be analyzed...

from a tree. According to a post-mortem examination conducted earlier, it was reported that the girls had been raped and died from strangulation due to being...

rigor mortis may be used in forensic pathology to determine the approximate time of death. A dead body holds its position as rigor mortis sets in. If the...

relating to the birthday, increased suicide risk, terminally ill patients attempting to hold on until their birthday, an increased mortality salience, or a physiological...

Bond's assessment was based on his own examination of the most extensively mutilated victim and the post mortem notes from the four previous canonical...

the manner of disposal is often dominated by spirituality with a desire to hold vigil for the dead and may be highly ritualized. In cases of mass death...

States, as a lead miner and plumber. McCurdy was unable to hold a job for an extended period due to his alcoholism. He eventually made his way to Kansas,...

Adriana discovers that the young man on whom she is carrying out a post-mortem examination is Andrea. Someone murdered him and gouged out his eyes. Additionally...

Chaudhury, a friend of Dinesh, had asked him to get any reference to a sexual assault removed from the post-mortem-report. Hemraj had spoken of a threat to his...

and assassins were buried upside down, as a post-mortem punishment and (as with burial at cross-roads) to inhibit the activities of the resulting undead...

life-producing drives. The death drive is sometimes referred to as "Thanatos" in post-Freudian thought, complementing "Eros", although this term was...