Chapter 102: Slender

The freezer in Langgu County Funeral Home can reach a temperature of minus 18 degrees.

With this basic condition, the conditions in the autopsy room are slightly worse, which is acceptable.

However, even if the corpse is stored at minus 18 degrees, some changes will still occur. For example, the corpse in front of him has a blue-black color. In the most serious place, the skin color has completely changed. The blue-black color is a bit like the color of the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty. If the corpse changes color as a whole, it will probably feel a little bit like a zombie.

Secondly, the nails are the most changed. For ordinary people other than forensic medicine, this kind of corpse that has been stored for a long time seems to have longer nails, which also has a little bit of the color of traditional Chinese zombies. But if you have read forensic medicine, you will understand that it is not the nails that have grown longer, but the fingers have shrunk, so the nails appear longer.

Jiang Yuan observed the corpse, and Li Zhen also observed him.

In terms of age alone, Li Zhen is almost three times as old as Jiang Yuan. In terms of qualifications, Li Zhen is a forensic doctor of the same generation as Wu Jun. When they were young, such qualifications could be pointed at and scolded.

Of course, it is not possible now. Moreover, Jiang Yuan was brought by the provincial department. Li Zhen has to give him enough face.

However, apart from these social etiquettes, Li Zhen is not optimistic about Jiang Yuan at all.

Young people have no experience. From Li Zhen's point of view, that is an objective fact. Young forensic doctors have seen few corpses and have performed few corpses, which means they have no experience.

And forensic doctors, many of them actually start from practice, pay attention to details, and observe life. Just like a person's knees are worn out, maybe because of work, maybe because of running, or maybe because of illness, Li Zhen can tell at a glance, and the forensic doctors who come to practice are naturally confused.

This is still forensic pathology. If we go further to forensic anthropology, there will be more detailed things. Li Zhen's experience is not enough to support it.

And Jiang Yuan...

Li Zhen just secretly disdained it. He didn't want to say anything harsh, so he just watched Jiang Yuan do his work, waiting for him to be satisfied and send him out of the country.

Jiang Yuan didn't really need Li Zhen's help. He would be happy if the other party didn't make trouble or talk too much.

The two sides complemented each other, which made the atmosphere in the autopsy room very harmonious.

The usual surface examination did not provide much information. Jiang Yuan quickly transitioned to the bone stage.

There was nothing in the abdominal and chest cavities of the corpse, the head in the cranial cavity was gone, and the pelvic cavity was actually a mess. It should have been bitten by wild beasts, but most of the bones were still left, enough to piece together the shape of the pelvis.

Li Zhen's main work was to piece together the pelvis, thereby confirming the gender and fertility status of the corpse, but still... this was basic forensic work, not outstanding, and it did not solve the problem.

Jiang Yuan sorted out the bones and thought in his mind.

The similarities and differences between forensic anthropology and other forensic techniques are that forensic anthropology pays more attention to a certain point rather than a surface.

In short, the comprehensiveness of forensic anthropology serves the part.

In other words, it is difficult for forensic anthropology to be comprehensive.

After all, the time between the deaths is long, and the better way is to determine some information through bones and infer the identity of the deceased from this information.

Instead of constantly trying to grasp more comprehensive information, some information is difficult to capture after all. The pursuit of comprehensive information is inappropriate in itself.

For Jiang Yuan, the body in front of him can actually provide a lot of information.

However, it seems that it is still difficult to identify her identity.

"It is still very troublesome without a skull. If there is a skull, the identity of the deceased may be found through teeth and the like." Li Zhen suddenly sighed, and also gave Jiang Yuan a step.

In his words to his apprentice: Don't do it if you can't do it.

It is a common problem for many young forensic doctors to do it with one mind, as if I can get the answer as long as I keep doing it, keep doing it.

According to Li Zhen's experience, if you do autopsy without any ideas, it will be a waste of time.

Just like Jiang Yuan in front of him, maybe he has some ideas, but how can an inexperienced young person do anything?

Especially when Jiang Yuan started to flip his arms and legs, Li Zhen found it even more funny.

There is no such thing as a hammer and a stick in autopsy, it's pure...

"Marfan syndrome." Jiang Yuan suddenly straightened up and said.

Li Zhen is old, and it took him several seconds to realize it and repeated it: "Marfan syndrome?"

"Well, tall stature, slender limbs, and little subcutaneous fat..." Jiang Yuan counted the items that met the requirements, and pulled the corpse's arms down, saying: "Hands over the knees."

Each of these items sounds good, but when combined together, it is enough to make people suspect Marfan syndrome.

In modern people, the incidence of Marfan syndrome is relatively high, and many people have carriers of this genetic disease around them. Because the symptoms are more in line with modern people's aesthetics, some Marfans are still very popular. Especially at a young age, many are selected as athletes because of their long limbs and height.

However, the devastation caused by Marfan syndrome is also very direct.

Various skeletal lesions, such as pectus excavatum or scoliosis. There are also heart diseases related to the aorta and mitral valve, as well as eye diseases, etc., which make Marfan people extremely miserable. The older you are, the higher the damage.

Li Zhen recalled the relevant key points of Marfan syndrome and then compared them one by one.

Eye disease...the head is gone.

Heart disease...the heart was taken out.

The crest and sternum... are fine.

There are several points that are easily reminded that something is wrong. However, it is not difficult to prove that it is Marfan syndrome. The difficulty is just to think of proving it.

Li Zhen and Jiang Yuan both looked at the dead man's hand.

Jiang Yuan wore gloves, grabbed the deceased's hand, and asked her to make a fist with her hand, which was different from the normal fist gesture. At this time, Jiang Yuan asked her to make a fist with her thumb inside and the other four fingers outside.

In this fist position, the tip of the deceased's thumb extended beyond the ulnar edge, which is the edge of the palm on the side where the little finger is located.

Jiang Yuan's eyes couldn't help but light up.

If this is to make a clinical diagnosis, then some examinations and tests must be done.

But on the forensic autopsy table, this discovery was enough.

To be on the safe side, Jiang Yuan grabbed the deceased's right hand and used it to wrap around his left hand.

In this movement, a normal person's thumb and index finger either cannot touch each other, or they can only touch it lightly. But a Marfan's thumb can easily cover his index finger...

"It is indeed Marfan syndrome." Li Zhen couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: Why didn't I think of it before?

For forensic doctors, Marfan syndrome is definitely not an unfamiliar symptom. Of course, for Li Zhen, it is difficult. Very few people in Langgu County carry the gene for Marfan syndrome, or they do not. He could not die in this county.

Li Zhen had also encountered corpses involving Marfan syndrome in his previous autopsies. It was normal that he couldn't remember them for a while...

"I'll call Liu Chu." Jiang Yuan took off his gloves.

Li Zhen was silent.

The corpse was right here. People saw it, but he didn't. It was just pure technical crushing. He was also speechless.

It was also a corpse without a head. What Li Zhen always thought was "it's a pity to have no teeth" and "there are no implants in the body." It was not surprising that Marfan syndrome was not discovered in the end.

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On the other side, Liu Jinghui was in a daze after receiving the call.

His mind turned around a little, and he understood the value of Jiang Yuan's discovery, and asked, "Should we check the medical records to identify this person?"

"In the missing persons records, there should not be many women who are over 30 years old, have a history of childbirth, are over 165 centimeters tall, and have Marfan syndrome." Jiang Yuan didn't go into detail. He has Marfan syndrome. Finding people should be easy.

Liu Jinghui responded, hung up the phone, and looked ahead in a daze.

Opposite him, the cheerful chicken seller tied up another big rooster and boasted about selling it: "Our chickens in Langgu County have been famous since ancient times. I collected these chickens from the countryside and kept them for at least one or two years." Yes, look at these claws, look at this mouth..."

He put the big rooster with red crown and feathers in front of Liu Jinghui and kept tapping it with his fingers.

Liu Jinghui coughed twice: "Boss, my plan has changed..."

The chicken seller's face darkened, and he didn't dare to crow even as he held the chickens in his hands: "I brought these from the countryside for you."

"I know, it's mainly from my side..."

"I'm telling you, if you live, you have to eat chicken." The chicken seller shook the big rooster, making it nod, and said: "Chickens are good for men."