Chapter 103: Slender

The temperature of the ice cabinet in the Langgu County funeral home can reach minus 18 degrees.

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

However, even if the body is stored at minus 18 degrees, it will inevitably undergo some changes. For example, the body in front of me is blue-black, and in the most serious places, the skin color has completely changed. That kind of blue-black is a bit like the color of the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty. If the whole body changes color, it will probably feel a little bit like a zombie.

Secondly, the change is greater in the nails. If you show this kind of body that has been stored for a long time to ordinary people outside forensic medicine, these nails seem to have grown longer—it is also a bit of a traditional Chinese zombie color, 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, making the nails look longer.

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

Just by age, Li Zhen's age is almost three times that of 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 point to the nose and scold.

Now, of course, it won't work. Furthermore, Jiang Yuan was brought by the provincial bureau. Looking at the monk's face and looking at the Buddha's face, Li Zhen also has to give enough face.

However, outside of these human relationships, Li Zhen didn't look at Jiang Yuan at all. He didn't want to say anything heavy, just watched Jiang Yuan work, just waiting for him to be satisfied and send him away.

Young people have no experience. From Li Zhen's perspective, that is an objective fact. Young forensic doctors see few bodies and do few autopsies, so they have no experience.

And those who do forensic medicine often start from practice, pay attention to details, and even more so to the body. It is like a person's knee wear, maybe because of work, maybe because of running, maybe because of illness. Li Zhen can see it at a glance, and the forensic doctor who comes to practice is naturally confused.

This is still forensic pathology, and then further to forensic anthropology, there are more detailed things. Li Zhen's experience is not enough to support it.

And Jiang Yuan...

Li Zhen just looked down on him secretly. He didn't want to say anything heavy, just watched Jiang Yuan work, just waiting for him to be satisfied and send him away.

Jiang Yuan didn't need Li Zhen to help much. If the other party didn't make trouble or talk nonsense, he would be Amitabha.

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

As usual, the physical examination did not provide much information. Jiang Yuan quickly transitioned to the bone stage.

The abdominal cavity and thoracic cavity of the body were empty, the cranial cavity—the head was gone directly, the pelvic cavity was actually messy, and it should have been bitten by wild beasts, but most of the bones were left, enough to piece together the appearance of the pelvis.

The main work Li Zhen did was to piece together the pelvis, thereby confirming the gender and fertility status of the body, but still... this is basic forensic work, not outstanding, and failed to solve the problem.

Jiang Yuan sorted out the bones, thinking in his brain.

Forensic anthropology is similar to and different from other forensic technologies in that forensic anthropology pays more attention to a certain point, not the surface.

In short, the comprehensiveness of forensic anthropology is to serve the part.

Or rather, forensic anthropology is actually very difficult to be comprehensive.

After all, the days are long, and a better way is to determine some information through bones, and infer the identity of the deceased from this information.

Instead of constantly trying to master more comprehensive information, some information is ultimately very difficult to capture. Pursuing comprehensive information is itself inappropriate.

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

However, it seems very difficult to identify her identity.

"It's still very troublesome without a skull. If there is a skull, through teeth and the like, maybe you can find the identity of the deceased." Li Zhen suddenly sighed, and also gave Jiang Yuan a step down.

In the words he said to his apprentice: If you can't do it, don't do it.

Focusing on doing it is a common mistake that many young forensic doctors make, as if as long as I keep doing it, keep doing it, I can make an answer.

Based on Li Zhen's experience, doing an autopsy without ideas, seven or eight out of ten are white work.

Just like Jiang Yuan here, maybe he has some ideas, but how can a young person without experience do something.

Especially watching Jiang Yuan doing it, starting to turn his arms and move his legs, Li Zhen feels even more funny.

Where is there such a thing as doing an autopsy, purely...

"Ma Fan syndrome, right." Jiang Yuan suddenly straightened his waist and said.

Li Zhen is old, and it took a few seconds to wake up, repeating: "Ma Fan syndrome?"

"En, taller, limbs are slender, and there is very little subcutaneous fat..." Jiang Yuan counted the items that met the requirements, and pulled the body's arm down, saying: "Hands over knees."

These items, each sounds good, but combined together, it is enough to make people suspect Ma Fan syndrome.

In the modern population, the incidence of Ma Fan syndrome is relatively high. Many people have carriers of the genetic disease around them. Because the symptoms are more in line with modern aesthetics, some Ma Fan people are very popular. Especially in their youth, many people were chosen as athletes because of their slender limbs and height.

However, the destructiveness brought by Ma Fan syndrome is also very direct.

Various bone lesions, such as funnel chest, or scoliosis. And heart diseases related to the aorta and mitral valve, as well as eye lesions, etc., make Ma Fan people extremely painful. The older you are, the greater the damage.

Li Zhen recalled the relevant points of Ma Fan syndrome, and then compared them one by one.

Eye lesions... the head is gone.

Heart disease... the heart was dug out.

Spine and sternum... they are fine.

Several points that are easy to be reminded of have problems, but it is not difficult to prove that it is Ma Fan syndrome. The difficulty is just thinking of proving it.

Li Zhen and Jiang Yuan's eyes were on the hands of the deceased.

Jiang Yuan wore gloves, grabbed the hands of the deceased, and made her hands into a milk fist—different from the normal fist gesture, Jiang Yuan asked her to put her thumb inside and the other four fingers outside.

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

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

If this is to make a clinical diagnosis, you have to do some tests and do some tests.

But on the autopsy table of forensic medicine, this discovery is enough.

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

This action, the thumb and index finger of a normal person either can't touch, or can only touch lightly. But the thumb of a Ma Fan person can easily cover the index finger...

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

For a forensic doctor, Ma Fan syndrome is definitely not an unfamiliar symptom. Of course, for Li Zhen, it has a certain difficulty. Very few people in Langgu County carry the gene for Ma Fan syndrome, or they carry it, but they didn't die in this county.

Li Zhen has encountered bodies involving Ma Fan syndrome in previous autopsies. It is normal to not be able to remember it for a while... right.

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

Li Zhen remained silent.

The body is here, people saw it, he didn't see it, it is purely technical crushing. He has nothing to say.

The same headless body, what Li Zhen thought was always "it's a pity there are no teeth," "there are no implants in the body," and ultimately failed to discover Ma Fan syndrome, which is not strange.

On the other side, Liu Jinghui, who received the call, was also a bit stunned.

His brain turned slightly, and he understood the value of Jiang Yuan's discovery, asking: "Is it to check the medical records, and then can we screen this person?"

"In the missing person records, find women over 30, with fertility history, height over 165 cm, and Ma Fan syndrome. The number should not be large." Jiang Yuan didn't say it in detail. With Ma Fan syndrome as the bottom line, it should be easy to find someone.

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

Opposite him, the chicken seller who was in high spirits tied up another big rooster and boasted: "Our Langgu County chicken has been famous since ancient times. I collected these chickens from the countryside. At least one or two years old. Look at this claw, look at this mouth..."

He brought the big rooster with red crown and flower feathers to Liu Jinghui, and his fingers kept pointing.

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

The chicken seller's face sank, and the chicken he held didn't dare to crow: "These were all collected from the countryside for you."

"I know, it's mainly because I'm here..."

"I tell you, if people live, they have to eat chicken." The chicken seller shook the big rooster, let it nod, and said: "Chicken is good for men." ===== CHAPTER 104 =====