Abstract

POSTMORTEM CHANGES AFTER DEATH

*Dr. Shaival Mishra

ABSTRACT

A major section of the chapter then discusses postmortem change in the body and the determination of the time of the time of death the author notes that following death. Numerous physicochemical change occur in the body that lead to the dissolution of all soft tissues. The medico legal importance of these post mortem change is related primarily to their sequential nature, which can be used in determining the time of death. Postmortem bodily changes discussed are the cooling of the body changes in the eyes the setting of blood due to gravitational forces within dilated toneless capillaries of the skin. And muscle flabbiness followed by the And increasing rigidity of the muscular mass, succeeded by a gradual return to the flabbiness, Other factor that can assist in determining time of stomach contents. The concluding section notes some factors that may mistake injuries prior to death with postmortem changes, thus leading to a faulty conclusion about time of death.

Keywords: Somatic or Systemic death, Molecular death, Rigor mortis, Postmortem stain, Death rattle, Cheynes – stokes respiration, Defecation, Livor mortis, Algor mortis, Tache roire, Purge fluid, Deglaing, Maceration.