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It could just be the differences in the makeup of their bodies.I was just thinking, if it turns out to be the case where K was hurt the worst, maybe that’s partly because she was trying to protect M.
From an article posted in the last thread:
“Stab wounds are said by some authors to ‘gape open’ depending upon their anatomical location. Lines of tension in the skin are determined by the relative orientation of elastic and collagen fibres, and the cleavage lines of Langer correspond to body surface creases.
Cox (1941) reviewed, and 'mapped' (by making 22,600 puncture wounds in cadavers) the cleavage lines, and noted that it was Dupuytren who first observed (in 1834) that there was a disparity between the shape of an instrument and the shape of the skin wound produced by it. Wounds made with a conical instrument were linear, not circular, in shape and that the direction of these wounds differed in different parts of the body. The lines of cleavage, however, were first published by Langer in 1861.
It was postulated that the lines of cleavage were due to the intrinsic arrangement of collagen fibres in the skin - the majority running parallel to the long axis and the remainder interlacing. The orientation of these fibres was further investigated by Haut (1989), examining the tensile strength (and failure) of rat skin. The tensile failure (giving rise to lacerations) depended upon location, orientation, age and strain rate.”
Read more: https://forensicmed.webnode.page/wounds/sharp-force-trauma/stab-wounds/