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Forensic Pathologist Research Paper

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A Forensic Pathologist studies the cause of death of human remains. To become a forensic pathologist it takes time and hard work. The average time at school is thirteen to eighteen years. The average salary is 100k- 500k. At school they have to study anatomy, but also serology and toxicology. They need a strong stomach to get passed the smell and gross things they deal with. As a forensic pathologist your job is to find out how they died and who they were. They can determine your age, height, sex, and even a person's diet from their corpse. For a forensic pathologist to determine the age of an individual they can do several different things. One thing they can do is look at the bones and see how much this person has grown, if the corpse was a child, the growth plates would not be full and their bones would not be worn down. While you are young your teeth erupt in a special sequence in your childhood, they can determine what stage the child is at to find an approximate age. For an adult your bones have grown completely and they have to find a different way to determine the age. They can look at the changes in their pelvis’. There is a joint in the front …show more content…

One way to figure out the height they can measure a person femur. To know which calculations to use you have to know if the person is a female or male. If the corpse is a female you measure the femur in centimeters and then multiply it by 2.47 and then add 54.1 to get the approximate height. If you are a male you measure the femur in centimeters and multiply it by 2.32 and then add 65.53. In some cases the scientists can not find the femur, that leads to finding different ways to figure the height. Another way they have figured out is measuring the humerus. If you are a female you measure her humerus in centimeters and multiply it by 3.08 and then add 64.67. If you are a male you measure in centimeters and multiply it by 2.89 and then add

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