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Decrease or shrinkage in cellular size
Skeletal muscle, heart, secondary sex organs, brain |
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| Casued by a failure of cells to receive or utilize oxygen |
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| Obstruction of the internal airways |
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| Compression and closure of the blood vessels and air passages |
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| Object w/ sharp points but w/out sharp edges produce... |
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| Produced by heavy, edged instruments |
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| Collection of blood in soft tissues or an enclosed space |
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| Collection of blood b/t the inner surface of the skull and the dura |
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| Proposed by Orgel in 1963. Presence of errors in those enzymes involved in transcription and translation, and their own synthesis leads to an increase in errors |
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| Decrease in workload, pressure, use, blood supply, nutrition, hormonal stimulation, and nervous stimulation |
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| Membrane-bound vesicles w/in the cell that contain cellular debris and hydrolytic enzymes |
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Increase in the size of cells and affector organ
Cells of kidney and heart
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Adaptive mechanism that enables certain organs to regenerate
Epidermal and intestinal epithelia, hepatocytes, bone marrow cells, and fibroblasts |
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| Occurs in estrogen-dependent organs |
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Abnormal changes in the size, shape, organization of mature cells
Cervix and respiratory tract |
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Chemical agents
Hypoxia
Free radicals
Infectious agents |
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| Death of the entire person |
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| Gravity causes blood to settle in the most dependent tissues, developing a purple discoloration |
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| Liver and nutritional disorders |
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| Penetrating sharp force injury that is deeper than it is long |
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| Increased Anaerobic Metabolism |
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| Postmortem reduction of body temp. |
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| Fragmentation of the nucleus into smaller particles |
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| Cells w/ apoptotic structure |
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| Alteration of oxygen delivery to tissue resulting from the breathing of fluid |
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| Prevent delivery of oxygen to the tissues or block its utilization |
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| Dead cells observed histologically |
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| Occurs w/ early development |
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"dropping off"
Pre-lethal injury leading to death
Determines size, patterning, and function of many tissues |
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| Increasing ______ of bullet has greater effect than increasing _____ |
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| Entrance wound occurring when flame, soot, or gunpowder does not reach the skin |
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| Oxygen failing to reach the blood |
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| Normal ambient oxygen level |
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| Sum of cellular changes after local cell death and the process of cellular self-digestion |
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| Bleeding into the skin and/or underlying tissues (bruise) |
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| Excessive amounts of urate (uric acid) |
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| Collection of blood b/t the inner surface of the dura mater and the surface of the brain |
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Direct Toxicity
Formation of free radicals and lipid peroxidation |
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| Mechanisms of mechanical injury |
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