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Gunshot patterns on ceramic chest plates

Frances Gleaner Lee commissioned these six ceramic chest plates circa 1940 to use as a teaching and reference tool. The plates illustrate the typical wound patterns caused by gunshots fired from a variety of weapons at different distances. Credit: National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services. Source: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, Maryland. From exhibition “Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body,” U.S. National Library of Medicine.