Pallor mortis
Pallor mortis (lat. For, paleness of the Dead ', synonym Leichenblässe ) referred to in the pathology of early signs of death of a corpse after death occurs .
properties
Pallor mortis is characterized by a decrease in blood in the blood vessels of the skin due to the interrupted blood circulation . It starts immediately after death and is completed in less than 30 minutes. Due to the force of gravity , the blood then sinks to the bottom, which is known as livor mortis ( dead spots caused by blood accumulation). The pallor mortis of follow Algor mortis (cold), the rigor mortis (rigor mortis), the livor mortis that Putrefizierung , the corruption and the thinning.
Web links
- Rules for carrying out the medical examination guidelines of the German Society for Forensic Medicine, 10/2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A. T. Schäfer: Color measurements of pallor mortis. In: International journal of legal medicine. Volume 113, Number 2, 2000, pp. 81-83, PMID 10741481 .
- ↑ Marcella H. Sorg: Forensic Taphonomy. CRC Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-439-82192-3 , p. 162.
