Small Amounts of Blood Are Best Submitted to a Crime

question 20

Multiple Choice

Small amounts of blood are best submitted to a crime laboratory:

• A) after drying and rehydrating
• B) after removal from surface of deposition and rehydration
• C) immediately while still wet
• D) after dried
• E) in a druggists fold

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Definitions:

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Adventitious lung sound caused by inflamed parietal and visceral pleura rubbing together on inspiration.

Crackles

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Nonpalpable Lymph Nodes

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