Postmortem examination of dead body is divided into to two sections:
1. External examination
- Documentation of General features like
- Anthropometric measures (body lenght, body weight),
- Secondary sexual characteristics (head hair, appearance of beard and moustache, breast development, axillary and pubic hair etc..),
- Identification marks (tattoos, mole, scar marks, etc),
- Features of postmortem changes like (Algor mortis, Rigor mortis and Livor mortis)
- Documentation of Injuries.
2. Internal examination
- Examination of three cavities
- Cranial cavity
- Thoracic cavity
- Abdominal cavity