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Glossary
ACCUMULATED DEGREE HOURS (ADH): a given occur in changed body proportions or increase or
amount of thermal energy needed to develop from decrease in the number of body segments
one stage of an insect life cycle to the next
LARVAE: the newly hatched, earliest stages
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE: temperature of of insects and other animals that undergo
surrounding air
metamorphosis, differing markedly in form and
appearance from the adult
CARRION: dead and putrefying flesh.; rottenness;
anything vile
LIVIDITY: the process by which blood settles
EXTANT: in existence; still existing; not destroyed to the lowest parts of a cadaver, causing a deep
or lost purple discoloration of the skin which can resemble
bruises; lividity occurs within 2-4 hours and
EXTRAPOLATE: to infer (an unknown) from becomes “fixed” within 8-12 hours after death
something that is known; conjecture
OVIPOSITION: to deposit or lay eggs
FAUNA: the animals of a given region or period,
considered as a whole
PALLOR: unusual or extreme paleness
FLACCIDITY: soft and limp; not firm; flabby
POST MORTEM INTERVAL (PMI): time since
INTEGUMENT: a natural covering, as a skin, shell, death
or rind
RIGOR MORTIS: the stiffening of the body after
INSTAR: a stage of an insect or other arthropod death, usually from 4 to 12 hours after death and
between molts; differences between instars may lasting 1 to 4 days
16 THE MYSTERY OF LYLE AND LOUISE
