Procedures for photographing

Question 2: (1 page) Define each of the following terms and explain the significance of each during autopsy. Provide an example of a cause of death where you would expect to see each of these medical phenomenon.

a. Tache Noire
b. Tardieu Spots
c. Petechiae
d. Mongolian spots
e. Battle signs

Question 3 (1 page): A woman arrives home from work and finds her husband with a plastic bag over his head to kill himself. he appears to be struggling to breath. The wife sees her young son dead of a shotgun wound just feet away. In her horror and rage she hits her husband over the head with a blunt object.

Can the M.E. determine which was the cause of death–suffocation or blunt force trauma? Explain your answers in detail.