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Postmortem Changes & Decomposition

ModerateForensic Medicine · Thanatology
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The sequence of changes that begin at the moment of somatic death and progress until complete skeletonisation. For the NEET PG forensic exam, the highest-yield use of these changes is estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) and recognising the special modified forms of decomposition — mummification, adipocere, maceration — and the exact environmental conditions each one demands. Postmortem changes are traditional

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