[Faline]

Multiple irregularly-shaped sharp force injuries of the neck caused by broken bottle. Death from rapid exanguination due to complete laceration of external jugular vein:



Gross heart specimen from a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who died in end-stage heart failure. Defibrillator leads are in the right heart. The ventricles are dilated with normal ventricular wall thicknesses, imparting an appearance of thin ventricular walls. The ventricles are dilated more than the atria:



Photograph of the heart of a 43-year-old man demonstrating the site of a stab wound over the left ventricular lateral free wall (shown as a vertical tear).



Tardieu spots are a sign of asphyxiation:



A human body being worked on at Von Hagens’ Plastinarium in Guben, Germany:



A lung showing centrilobular emphysema characteristic of smoking. Close up of fixed, cut surface shows multiple cavities lined by heavy black carbon deposits:



Brain contusions are usually multiple and occur on the cortical surface of the brain:



Dissection of proximal thoracic aorta in Marfan disease:



Fetal brain at 22 weeks:



Brain damage to the cerebellum from chronic alcoholism; note the atrophy in the fern-like pattern of the cerebellum:



Brain hemorrhage, post-mortem:



When determining the causes of decapitation, it must be noted that sudden deceleration can often mimic both extreme blunt force or sharp trauma. Extreme blunt force will almost always have extensive telling contusions and wounds throughout the body, but sharp trauma can be difficult to differentiate at times.

This case was caused by high-speed impact with a cable while driving a recreational vehicle:



The others by me:
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...s-info-113407/
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...rt-2-a-114524/
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...rt-3-a-119337/

[Shakey]

Wow, that last one is brutal.

[Sharon]

Excellent thread

[Viking64]

Kel, just put it all in a blender and I'll drink it for breakfast.

[blancadon]

[Rusty666]

[kellyhound]

damn, those smoked lungs.

[suzie2001]

[suzie2001]

i love autopsy pics. gunther van thingy is a genius :

[MeMyselfandI]

Thanks Kel