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| angle of impact | the angle at which the blood droplets strikes a surface |
| cast-off-strains | blood which has been thrown from a secondary object (weapon or hand) other than impact site, onto a target |
| drop patterns | characteristics patterns present when blood drips into standing wet blood |
| origin | the point in space from where blood splatter came |
| parent drop | the driplet from which satellite spatter originated |
| projected blood | blood that strikes a target under pressure |
| satellite spatters | small drops of blood that break off from the parent spatter when the parent droplet strikes a target surface |
| skeletonized stains | the pattern left when a object moves through a partially dried stain, removing part of the blood, but leaving the outline of the stain intact. |
| spatter | bloodstains created from the application of force or energy to the area where the blood orginated |
| spines | the poined edges of a stain that radiate out to form the spatter |
| transfer pattern | the pattern created when a wet bloody object comes in contact with a target surface, leaving a pattern with features of the object that are useful for identifying the object |
| target | the surface where blood ends up |
| void | space left in blood spatter where an object was removed from the crime scene |
