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1
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Decrease in body temperature immediately before death.

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Agonal Algor

2
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Increase in body temperature immediately before death.

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Agonal Fever

3
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Is the settling of blood into the dependent tissues of the body.

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Agonal Hypostasis

4
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Moisture change during the agonal period,

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Agonal moisture changes

5
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Postmortem cooling of the body to the surrounding temperature.

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Algor mortis

6
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Self-destruction of cells, Decomposition of all tissues by enzymes that form without microbial assistance.

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Autolysis

7
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Decomposition of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria,

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Decay

8
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Loss of moisture from body tissue that may occur antemortem or post mortem (antemortem: febrile disease, diarrhea, or emesis; postmortem: injection of embalming solution or through absorption by the air.)

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Dehydration

9
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Sloughing off of the epidermis, wherein there is a separation of the epidermis from the underlying dermis.

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Desquamation

10
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Reaction in which water is one of the reactants and compounds are often broken down, In the hydrolysis of proteins the addition of water accompanied by the action of enzymes results in the breakdown of protein into amino acids,

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Hydrolysis

11
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Settling of blood and/or fluids to dependent portions of the body.

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Hypostasis

12
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Postmortem intravascular red-blue discoloration resulting from hypostasis of blood. Also known as cadaveric lividity,

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Livor Mortis

13
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Antemortem, physiological death of the cells of the body followed by the their replacement.

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Necrobiosis

14
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Pathological death of a tissue still a part of the living organism.

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Necrosis

15
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Rise in body temperature after death due to continued cellular metabolism.

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Postmortem caloricity

16
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Extravascular color change that occurs when heme, released by hemolysis of red blood cells, seeps through the vessel walls and into the body tissues.

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Postmortem stain

17
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Decomposition of proteins.

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Proteolysis

18
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Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria.

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Putrefaction

19
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Postmortem stiffening of the body muscles by natural body processes,

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Rigor mortis

20
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Postmortem accumulation of gas in tissues or cavities brought about by an anaerobic gas-forming bacillus.

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Tissue gas

21
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Agonal or postmortem redistribution of host microflora on a host wide basis.

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Translocation

22
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Resistance to the flow of liquid, Thickness of a liquid.

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Viscosity