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by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on January 31st, 2005

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What are the differences between antemortem, perimortem, and postmortem?

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  • by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on January 31st, 2005

    Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony

    All three terms refer to time periods:

    Antemortem is before death
    Perimortem is at or around the time of death
    Postmortem is after death

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  • by anthropol on April 11th, 2011

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    Just to add to the answer above, there are dicrepancies between fields as to what classifies as perimortem trauma. For example, if someone died of a disease that affected the bone, a forensic pathologist would consider the affects on the bone to be perimortem since the disease caused the death. However, a forensic anthropologist would call it antemortem since the trauma itself did not occur at or cause death.

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  • by DullerGrin on November 18th, 2009

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    What's the differance between premortem and antemortem? Is there a differance or are they the same? I hadn't heard of antemortem until I searched the web, my book refers to it as premortem.

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