• Question 1
1 out of 1 points
You receive some skeletonized human remains in your lab. The individual has several broken bones. The fractures
... [Show More] have sharp edges, angled ends and hinging. You conclude the person received these injuries:
Selected
Answer: While they were alive
Answers:
While they were alive
Many years before they died
After they had died
After they had been buried
• Question 2
1 out of 1 points
A skeleton comes into your lab that exhibits cranial trauma. There is a fracture in the middle of the left parietal and on the opposite side of the cranium in the middle of the right parietal. This could be an example of a:
Selected
Answer: Contre-coup fracture
Answers:
Contre-coup fracture
Buttress fracture Ring fracture
• Question 3
0 out of 1 points
You receive a skeleton in your lab that exhibits a severe fracture to the face. The upper teeth and alveolar bone have separated from the rest of the skull. This injury was likely caused by:
Selected
Answer: A blow to the bottom of the
skull
Answers:
A blow to the lower face
A blow to the bottom of the skull
A blow to the nose
A blow to the back of the
head
• Question 4
1 out of 1 points
An injury resulting from the same blow that caused two different wounds opposite one another because the force of impact has a counterforce is called:
Selected
Answer: Coup-Contrecoup
Answers: Ring fracture LeFort fracture Infraction
Coup-Contrecoup
• Question 5
Blows to the face often cause breaks known as:
Selected
Answer: LeFort fractures
Answers:
1 out of 1 points
LeFort fractures Ring fractures Infractions
Buttress Fractures
• Question 6
All of the following are indicative of postmortem trauma, EXCEPT:
Selected
Answer: green stick and hinge fractures are present
Answers: color at fracture is lighter than the rest of the bone
green stick and hinge fractures are present breaks occur at right angles to bone shafts carnivore tooth marks
• Question 7
In which type of individual are you most likely to see a greenstick fracture?
1 out of 1 points
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: Subadult
Answers:
Subadult Adult Elderly
Deceased individual
• Question 8
1 out of 1 points
You have a case in your lab in which the individual died as a result of a beating from a baseball bat. This would be an example of what type of trauma?
Selected Answer: Blunt
force
Answers:
Blunt force
Sharp force
Projectile
Emotiona l
• Question 9
1 out of 1 points
What type of trauma is the result of narrowly focused, compressive forces applied to the surface of a bone?
Selected
Answer: sharp force trauma
Answers: taphonomy
sharp force trauma projectile trauma dismemberment
• Question 10
The diameter of a bullet and/or the barrel of a handgun are the:
1 out of 1 points
Selected Answer: caliber
Answers: jacket gauge
caliber profile
• Question 11
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following weapons would most likely cause a blunt force injury AND a sharp force injury on bone with the same blow? [Show Less]