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Bookmark or Share- What Happens To Your Body When You Are Strangled To DeathManual strangulation is done with the use of hands or other body parts, such as forearms or knees, while ligature strangulation makes use of an item — such as a belt or rope — to apply pressure to the throat (via Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences ). Both of these types may result in death.
- How to Evaluate Strangulation - ACEP NowStrangulation is a form of asphyxia, characterized by closure of the blood vessels and air passages of the neck as a result of external pressure. There is a distinction between strangulation and choking, which is an internal obstruction of the airway.
- Strangulation Injuries - StatPearls - NCBI BookshelfStrangulation injuries occur when external forces are applied to the neck leading to a variety of traumatic pathology. If the injury is severe enough cerebral perfusion and oxygen delivery is threatened and can lead to asphyxia and rapid neuronal death.
- Hanging Injuries and Strangulation: Practice Essentials - MedscapeStrangulation is asphyxia by closure of the blood vessels and/or air passages in the neck due to external pressure. Hanging is the suspension (complete or incomplete) of a person's body, with...
- Strangling - WikipediaStrangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging causes death (alongside breaking the victim's neck).
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