Cadaver use at the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 372-380

  Shirley, Natalie R ^a   Wilson, Rebecca J ^a   Jantz, Lee Meadows ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

forensic anthropology; human decomposition; skeletal research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; CADAVER; CADAVER DONOR; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRIMINOLOGY; DEATH; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CADAVER; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; TENNESSEE;

EID: 79953008229     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.21154     Document Type: Article

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