Deck 11: Death, Trauma, and the Skeleton

Question 1

Trauma is just one category of pathological conditions that can occur in humans.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of an infraction?

A) Complete fracture
B) Hinge fracture
C) Comminuted fracture
D) All of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is a discontinuity?

A) Displacement
B) Fracture line
C) Comminuted fracture
D) All of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following describes multiple fractures resulting in fragmenting of bone?

A) Complete fracture
B) Hinge fracture
C) Comminuted fracture
D) All of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is most likely to cross through a suture line?

A) Hoop fracture
B) Radiating fracture line
C) Hinge fracture
D) None of the above

Question 6

Which of the following results in displacement?

A) Complete fracture
B) Fatigue fracture
C) Stress fracture
D) All of the above

Question 7

Which of the following is a pathological fracture?

A) Hoop fracture
B) Radiating fracture line
C) Fatigue fracture
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is a characteristic of forces causing trauma that refers to the size of the impact surface?

A) Direction
B) Speed
C) Focus
D) None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following is a direction of force that is studied in bone trauma?

A) Tension
B) Torsion
C) Shearing
D) All of the above

Question 10

The parry fracture results from which direction of force?

A) Tension
B) Bending
C) Compression
D) Shearing

Question 11

Which of the following is most likely to result from a gunshot wound?

A) Blunt force trauma
B) Sharp force trauma
C) Projectile trauma
D) None of the above

Question 12

Trauma that occurs around the time of death is referred to as?

A) Antemortem
B) Perimortem
C) Postmortem
D) None of the above

Question 13

An old surgical scar seen in bone would have which of the following characteristics?

A) Rounded fracture edges
B) Sharp radiating fracture lines
C) Hinged bone surfaces
D) Jagged surfaces

Question 14

Which of the following is a characteristic perimortem fractures?

A) Sharp fracture edges
B) Fracture lines
C) Jagged broken surfaces
D) All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is not a characteristic perimortem fractures?

A) Sharp fracture edges
B) Porosity near the break surface
C) Jagged broken surfaces
D) All of the above

Question 16

Which of the following manners of death are particularly interesting to law enforcement agencies?

A) Homicide
B) Suicide
C) Accidental
D) All of the above

Question 17

Which of the following aspects of trauma to human bone are of interest to law enforcement agencies?

A) Time of occurrence
B) Type of causative force
C) Number of injuries
D) All of the above

Question 18

One of the aspects of bone trauma that interests law enforcement is the sequence of wounds with multiple traumas.

Question 19

One of the manners of death discussed in the textbook is ""gunshot wound.""

Question 20

A hinge fracture is one type of an infraction.

Question 21

A fall from a great height is likely to result in only simple fractures.

Question 22

A fracture line will often cross a suture or another fracture line, and continue onward.

Question 23

A stress fracture of the heel in an athlete is an example of a pathological fracture.

Question 24

The dowager's hump is most often the result of an attack by another person.

Question 25

The direction of force is one of the characteristics that aids in understanding of bone trauma.

Question 26

One of the directions of force that is seen in deaths due to attacks by other persons is tension.

Question 27

Gunshot wounds apply a dynamic force to bone.

Question 28

Bludgeoning with a club results in sharp force trauma.

Question 29

Bone injury that occurs around the time of death is termed antemortem trauma.

Question 30

Perimortem bone trauma can result in sharp edges of broken bone.

Question 31

Postmortem damage to bone can be distinguished from antemortem and perimortem trauma.

Question 32

Which of the following is a characteristic postmortem damage to bone?

A) Radiating fracture lines
B) Hinging
C) Right angle broken surfaces
D) All of the above