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A case of "precocious" mummification [PDF]
Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2013 Mummification is a peculiar transformative process consisting of the total drying of the body soft tissues. It is produced, in particular conditions, between 6 and 12 months after death. "Precocious" mummification has been reported in countries where recorded weather conditions are more extreme than in Italy, in a confined environment, or with ...
Marella G. L. +3 more
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Experimental mummification—In the tracks of the ancient Egyptians [PDF]
Clinical Anatomy, 2020 AbstractUnderstanding natural and artificial postmortem alterations in different tissues of the human body is essential for bioarchaeology, paleogenetics, physical anthropology, forensic medicine, and many related disciplines. With this study, we tried to gain a better understanding of tissue alterations associated with the artificial mummification ...
Öhrström, Lena +9 more
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Computer graphics simulation of natural mummification by desiccation [PDF]
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2020 © 2020 The Authors. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Organic bodies are subject to internal processes after death, causing significant structural, and optical changes. Mummification by desiccation leads to volume
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Report on fetal mummification in the scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini [PDF]
Journal of Fish Biology, 2020 This study describes the fetal mummification process in two embryos of a 310 cm total length scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini caught in southeastern Brazil, in December 2017.
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Haematic Mummification in a Mare With Twin Pregnancy [PDF]
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, 2012 Mummification occurs when the fetus dies during the second or third trimester of gestation and remains in the uterine cavity because of the persistence of the corpus luteum or existence of another live fetus.
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Mourning, Mummification and Living with the Dead
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1977SummarySix cases are reported in which the bereaved kept the deceased's body for periods ranging from one week to ten years.Some relevant anthropological and psychoanalytical observations are discussed. This phenomenon does not appear to have been reported in the literature of Western psychiatry.
A, Gardner, M, Pritchard
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An unusual case of body mummification
Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin, 1974The hanged and completely mummified body of a 31-year-old man was found in one of his house cellars—a fully occupied 3-family house—14 months (433 days) after he had vanished from home. The investigation carried out locally, the questioning of the house tenants and the post-mortem examination itself brought light to this unusual affair.
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Mummification in Australia and Melanesia
1998To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved as with the ancient Egyptians using a variety of complex techniques, others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in ...
Pretty, G L, Calder, A
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