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4 unusual facts about Autopsy


Coroners Court of Queensland

The Court has exclusive jurisdiction over the remains of a person and to make findings about the cause of death of a person.

Kurdaitcha

The burial was of a young person of high status but it is unclear if the bone was the cause of death or if it had been used in a ritual post mortem.

Mario Encarnación

Autopsy reports later showed that he had died from a congenital medical condition.

Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council

Whales have been found beached in Greece, the Canary Islands and in the Bahamas after sonar was used in the area, and necropsies showed signs of internal bleeding near the ears.


1995 Chicago heat wave

Eric Klinenberg, author of the 2002 book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, has noted that the map of heat-related deaths in Chicago mirrors the map of poverty.

Accidental death and dismemberment insurance

Due to these restrictions, the process of claiming the benefit may be relatively lengthy; the deceased client may have to undergo autopsy and the accident may have to be officially investigated before a claim is approved by the insurer.

Aortic dissection

The earliest fully documented case of aortic dissection is attributed to Frank Nicholls in his autopsy report of King George II of Great Britain, who had been found dead on 25 October 1760; the report describes dissection of the aortic arch and into the pericardium.

Assassination of Lalith Athulathmudali

The fact that the Judicial Medical Officer Dr. Lalantha de Alwis, who conducted the autopsy on the body, had testified that the body smelled of Potassium cyanide (which LTTEers had used over the years to suicide) and that he found pieces of glass in the mouth of the body stood as strong evidence to support the Police.

Christine Maggiore

An autopsy revealed that Eliza Jane was markedly underweight and underheight, consistent with a chronic illness, exhibited a pronounced atrophy of her thymus and other lymphatic organs, and that her lungs were infected with Pneumocystis jirovecii, a common opportunistic pathogen in people with AIDS and the leading cause of pediatric AIDS deaths.

Coarctation of the aorta

An anecdotal history statement describes the first diagnosed case of the coarctation of the Aorta in Julia the daughter of the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine after the autopsy in 1832 in Beirut, the reference manuscript still exists in one of the Maronite monasteries in Mount Lebanon.

Cynthia L. Mahoney

Sister Cindy summoned David Worby, the lawyer representing thousands of ailing "Ground Zero" workers, to her Aiken, South Carolina hospice and requested that he act as her guardian and fulfill her dying wish by overseeing her autopsy after she's gone ... she suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, Worby said.

Cyril Elgood

Elgood's descriptions of the obstetric, ophthalmological, anaesthetic procedures give insight into great advances made in medicine under Islam in Persia despite the falsely adapted four humor theory of the Greco-Romans and the prohibition of dissections by the Islamic law.

Daniel Wayne Smith

Dr. Cyril Wecht was hired by Callenders and Co., a Bahamian law firm, to do an independent autopsy on the body of Daniel Smith, the son of Anna Nicole Smith, who died while visiting his mother in the Bahamas.

Dead Shrimp Blues

Dr. Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) is a fan of blues music and has much knowledge of it as does Prof. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) and is seen singing along to "Dead Shrimp Blues" as he is performing an autopsy in the CSI episode, "The Gone Dead Train".

Death of Mido Macia

A preliminary post-mortem report released by South Africa's Independent Police Investigative Directorate indicated that Macia had died in police detention with head injuries and internal bleeding.

Eduard von Hofmann

Hofmann was instrumental in autopsy studies of the nearly 400 victims who perished at the Viennese Ringtheater fire on December 8, 1881, where carbon monoxide poisoning was deemed to be an underlying cause of death.

Emanuel Feldman

During his nearly 40 years as a congregational rabbi, Feldman spoke out on controversial issues facing the community, including the opening of the Atlanta Jewish Community Center on Shabbat, kashrut, adoption, divorce, autopsy, and circumcision.

Evelyn Hoey

Later the body was taken to the county hospital in West Chester, Pennsylvania for an autopsy.

Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations

Patrice Mangin, the Swiss pathologist who headed the team that volunteered to examine Al Salami's body, said that it was routine to remove some organs before autopsy - those that decay rapidly.

Hibernus Mortis

Taking influence from a variety of sources, musically the band took inspiration from the old-school death metal bands like Incantation, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Death, Dismember, Immolation, Entombed, Obituary, Vader and Suffocation just to name a few.

House Training

Lupe eventually dies and when House performs an autopsy, it is learned that Lupe had a staph infection from a scratch due to her bra hook, and the team didn't notice it because the strap covered it.

I Was Dora Suarez

Autopsy results accrue the revulsion as they compound the puzzle: Suarez was dying of AIDS, but the pathologist is unable to determine how she had contracted HIV.

Johannes Draaijer

The autopsy did not specify the cause of death, but Draaijer's wife later told the German news magazine, Der Spiegel, that her husband became sick after using EPO.

Kenenisa Bekele

Although it was initially stated that no autopsy was performed, Alem and Kenenisa's manager, Jos Hermens, later said that an autopsy had revealed nothing conclusive about the young woman's death.

Knickerbocker Greys

The Knickerbocker Greys was founded by Mrs. Augusta Lawler Stacey Curtis, the wife of Dr. Edward Curtis, a noted New York physician who served on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Union Army, and assisted in the autopsy on the body of President Abraham Lincoln.

Maccabiah bridge collapse

An autopsy of Zines finally identified the source of the infections as Pseudallescheria boydii fungus.

Mohamed Akid

The autopsy on 18 July 2012 confirmed the presence of two shots in his body and the son of Akid confirmed the implication of the Crown prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.

Mohammed Al-Bayati

After Scovill died on May 16, 2005 of an HIV/AIDS-related infection of Pneumocystis pneumonia, her mother, Christine Maggiore, had the autopsy reviewed by Al-Bayati, who came to a different conclusion: that Scovill had died of an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, a conclusion Maggiore agreed with.

Natsuo Kirino

For Out, she visited a pathology autopsy class at a university but was not able to view a real corpse.

Oliviero Diliberto

Fascinated by the philosophic thought of Michel Foucault, after graduating from high school he traveled for Paris where, to support himself, he briefly worked at the city morgue, preparing corpses that had to undergo autopsy.

Peter Tsiamalili

His body was transported to the Buka General Hospital morgue in Buka, the capital of the Bougainvillean government, before being flown to Port Moresby for an autopsy.

Public lecture

Public autoposies have sometimes verged on entertainment: American showman P. T. Barnum held a public autopsy of Joice Heth after her death.

Red Vines

In the season 2 premiere, "A New Day in the Old Town", he is even seen eating Red Vines while conducting an autopsy.

Rodney Orr

In 2001, Orr gained attention again after the death of Dale Earnhardt when his autopsy photos as well as those of Bonnett and pop star Lisa Lopes were displayed on the internet.

Sickle cell trait

For example, in November 2010, Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger of the National Institutes of Health discovered the earliest proof of Sickle-cell disease while looking for the virus of the 1918 flu during the autopsy of an African-American soldier.

Theodor Bilharz Research Institute

Theodor Bilharz was a German scientist who discovered, in autopsy material at Kasr El Aini Hospital, the causative agent of haematuria : Schistosoma worm, during his work in Egypt in 1851.

Trichinosis

In 1835, James Paget, a first-year medical student, first observed the larval form of T. spiralis while witnessing an autopsy at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.

Virtopsy

The name is a portmanteau of 'virtual' and 'autopsy' and is a trademark registered to Prof. Richard Dirnhofer, the former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

William Bruce Pitzer

Pitzer's death occurred the same day that the Kennedy family agreed, through their attorney, to release to the National Archives several items related to the autopsy of the fallen president, including photographs and x-rays.


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