Medico-Legal Update

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

A Case of Quick Mummification: The Influence of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in the Post Mortal Processes

  • Author:
  • Anastasia Margot Faedda1,, Andrea Cammarano1, Stefania Urso1, Filippo Milano1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 317 to 318

1Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier, Rome, Italy

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Anastasia Margot FAEDDA, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, via Montpellier 1, 00133, Rome, Italy. Ph. +39 06 72596221, email: anastasiamargot@gmail.com

Online published on 8 August, 2019.

Abstract

After death, the corpse is subjected to many different post mortem phenomena that change the whole biochemical and physical structures of the vital body. Those phenomena have different evolutions depending on numerous factors typical of the death body and of the setting where the body lies. Mummification is one of the special transformative process that consist in the drying of the entire body structures and requires particular wheatear condition and timing.

Keywords

Mummification, post mortem, transformative phenomenon