What are Postmortem Changes?

Postmortem Changes
Postmortem Changes. Different changes to the human body after death including time frames of the different changes. As well as stomach contents which gives a timeline of when the diseased last ate before death. Own work Michele Taylor. Wikimedia Commons (2021). Not Altered. CC.

Postmortem changes are signs or indications of death.

Postmortem changes include:

  • Algormortis
  • Livormortis
  • Pallormortis
  • Rigormortis