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Pathology is the medical specialty concerned with examining body tissues and fluids to contribute to the diagnosis of disease. There are two types of pathology, anatomic and clinical. So what does forensics have to do with pathology? What is ? A forensic patho ....

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.... determine time of death, examine area around body, determine how and when the body will be moved, and make preliminary sketches and notes. There are numerous ways a person can die. A forensic pathologist's main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they look at the proximate cause of death. That is the initial injury that led to a sequence of events which caused the death of the victim. Second they look at immediate cause of death. That is the injury or disease that finally killed the individual. Next they look for the mechanism of death, which is the altered physiology by which a disease or injury produces death. And finally the ....