Instead she took out syringes to withdraw vitreous fluid for postmortem potassium levels.
"Tell me about the other victim," Maura said as she pierced the left eye and slowly withdrew vitreous fluid into the syringe.
The tear allows vitreous fluid to seep through it under the retina, and peel it away like a bubble in wallpaper.
If the glass had gone much deeper into your eyes, the vitreous fluid would have escaped and your eyeballs would have simply collapsed.
Unfortunately, the vitreous fluid in the eyes had evaporated in all victims.
"Go on," Banks urged him, not wishing to dwell on the evaporation of vitreous fluid.
Slowly she sucked the vitreous fluid into a 10 cc syringe.
In more severe cases, vitreous fluid may seep under the tear, separating the retina from the back of the eye, creating a retinal detachment.
But because we knew she was insulin dependent, the coroner checked the vitreous fluid.
That's called vitreous fluid, I thought with clarity.