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Haemotaphonomy
Haemotaphonomy or hemotaphonomy (from the Greek haima for blood, taphos for burial, and nomos for law) is the study of bloodstains, and especially of the changes in appearance and size of the cellular components, as well as the characteristics of their cell position and appearance in function of the superficial topography and composition of the substrate. This science was founded by the Catalan biologist Policarp HortolĂ , who in 1992 used for the first time the term 'hemotaphonomy' to refer to his cytomorphological researches on red blood cells in bloodstains.
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