Strangle
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Strangle besides hanging and strangling one of the three forms of strangulation . In contrast to hanging or strangling, this strangulation takes place without a string or throttling tool, but by squeezing the neck with the hand or hands or arm.
In contrast to hanging and strangling, death usually occurs through suffocation , i.e. through oxygen deprivation, and not through cutting off the cerebral blood supply and the resulting emptiness of the brain or through a broken neck . Choking can also be caused by forcibly closing or covering the upper respiratory tract and throat. Post-mortem signs of strangulation are therefore fractures of the hyoid bone and larynx and typical gag marks on the neck. This is also not the case with so-called burking , the simultaneous holding of the mouth and nose or other deaths from suffocation without external influence.
Suicide by strangling is practically impossible because the muscle relaxation that occurs also removes the pressure exerted on the neck. In rare cases, however, the carotid sinus reflex may be fatal.
Inadvertently, panicked drowning people may unintentionally cause other people. a. put in danger by choking. Why have lifeguards in addition tactics to avoid clasping also provide relief from a Halswürgegriff and other clinches train .
See also
Web links
- Strangulation text slides for the lecture SS '07. ( Memento of November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).