Contusion: Region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured

September 13th • American-Swiss psychiatrist, whose teaching and influential work has become part of psychiatric theory and practice in English-speaking...

Abrasion: An area damaged by scraping or wearing away.

September 12th Born September 12, 1897; died on March 17, 1956 at the age of 58. French physicist and chemist,...

Mee’s lines in a nail: Suggestive of arsenic or thallium poisoning

September 11th • After his first discovery of RNA leukemia virus in mice in 1951, subsequent studies by Gross revealed...

Strangulation injury: In ligature strangulation, the impression of the ligature is generally horizontal at the same level of the neck,...

September 10th In 1984, Alec Jeffreys discovered DNA fingerprints in Leicester, England, because X-ray films of his tests first revealed...

Hanging mark: In hanging, a mark all the way around, a crushed larynx, or broken neck is more likely than...

September 9th • Italian physician and physicist who studied the structure of organs and the physiology of tissues, who is...