Human Male European Gunshot Wound
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: This specimen is a cast of a human male (European) with a gunshot wound, and includes a complete upper skull and the mandible. The cast has five teeth in the maxillary arcade and seven teeth in the mandibular arcade. All teeth are of an adult morphology, with no significant attrition. There is a sharply circumscribed, semicircular defect in the left side of the frontal bone, along the superomedial border of the left orbit, immediately superior to the nasion. A minute fracture radiates superiorly from the superior border of the defect. A larger, more irregular defect in the left side of the occipital bone is along and immediately inferior to the left lambdoid suture. The exit gunshot wound is found in left quadrant of the occipital bone. It is off-white in color, and made of plastic. The skull measures approximately 19 cm x 16 cm x 16 cm in size, and the mandible measures approximately 9 cm x 9 cm x 5 cm in size.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jun 2023
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Homo sapiens sapiens
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO401720
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Common name
content: Modern Human
label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Tetrapoda, Mammalia, Theria, Primates, Hominidae
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Cast