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Blood Spatter Vocab Voyage

Set your paper up like this… Vocab Word Definition 1. ) The surface where the blood ends up. 2. ) 3. )

Blood Spatter Vocab Voyage Answer Key

1. Target 1. The surface where the blood ends up.

2. Clot 2. A mass of blood and other contaminants caused through clotting mechanisms.

3. Impact site 3. Point on the body that received a blow, from which blood was shed

4. Projected Blood 4. Blood under pressure that strikes a target.

5. Spines 5. The pointed edges of a stain that radiate out to form spatter.

6. Angle of Impact 6. The angle at which blood strikes a target surface. • 90 degrees – • 60 degrees – • 30 degrees – • 10 degrees –

7. Cast-off stains 7. Blood that has been thrown from a secondary object (weapon or hand)

8. Splash 8. Created when a volume of blood in excess of 1 m. L strikes a surface at a low velocity

9. Spatter 9. Bloodstains created from the application of force or energy to an area where the blood is.

10. Arterial Gushing 10. The large pattern of blood that is created when blood escapes an artery under pressure; rise and fall of blood pressure is apparent

11. Drop Patterns 11. Characteristic patterns present when blood drips into standing, wet blood.

12. Shadowing/Ghosting/Void 12. area in questions lacks blood even though areas surrounding it show blood

13. Parent Drop 13. The droplet from which satellite spatter originated.

14. Origin 14. Place in space where the blood came from

15. Swipe 15. the transfer of blood onto a target surface by a bloody object that is usually moving laterally

16. Wipe 16. pattern created when a secondary object moves through an existing wet blood stain

17. Expiratory blood 17. blood spattered as a result of breathing

18. Satellite Spatter 18. Small drops of blood that break off from the parent spatter when the parent droplet strikes a target surface.

19. Arterial spurts 19. large patterns under pressure, but with less volume; distinct rises and falls of blood pressure

20. Skeletonized stain 20. pattern left when an object moves through a partially dried stain

21. Transfer pattern 21. the pattern created when a wet, bloody object comes in contact with a target surface, leaving a pattern

Low Impact Spatter • blood under the influence of gravity - it just falls.

Medium Impact Spatter • occurs when a force such as a bat is applied. • Spatter will be smaller in diameter.

High Impact Spatter • fine mist of droplets • typically results from power machinery, gunshots