Postmortem Root Banding
The appearance of an opaque band near the root/proximal end of a hair potentially observed in anagen or catagen hairs that have been removed from a decomposing body; the possibility of other conditions causing the same or similar characteristics cannot be eliminated (Koch, S.L., Michaud, A.L., and Mikell, C.E., Taphonomy of Haira Study of Postmortem Root Banding, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol 58, No. s1, 2013, pp. S52S59).