Forensic Pathology Indian Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Forensic Pathology Flashcard Deck - 59 Cards
Flashcard 1: Time since death can be calculated using the formula :
_____
Answer:
Flashcard 2: The order of appearance of rigor mortis:
_____
Answer:
Flashcard 3: Two reliable indicators suggesting that the victim was alive while the fire was in progress:1. Elevated levels of _____ in the circulating blood.2. Carbon particles in the air passages and lungs
Answer: carbon monoxide
Flashcard 4: _____ appear on the cornea 3-4 hours after death
Answer: Tache noir
Flashcard 5: _____ formation cannot occur if the IUFD is under 7 months
Answer: Adipocere
Flashcard 6: _____ is an artefact that mimics extradural haemorrhage.
Answer: Heat hematoma
Flashcard 7: _____ of liver is a sign of putrefaction.
Answer: Honeycombing
Flashcard 8: Postmortem marbling starts in _____ hours and becomes prominent in 36-48 hours.
Answer: 24
Flashcard 9: Casper dictum states that _____ week of putrefaction in air is equivalent to two weeks in water, which is equivalent to eight weeks buried in soil, given the same environmental temperature.
Answer: One
Flashcard 10: Late signs of death include: _____, Adipocere, Mummification
Answer: Putrefaction
Flashcard 11: _____ hypostasis is seen in hanging
Answer: Glove and Stocking
Flashcard 12: _____ sign is a postmortem change that occurs in the retinal vessels characterised by fragmentation of blood column
Answer: Kevorkian
Flashcard 13: _____ rule: Fracture lines in the skull do not cross each other.
Answer: Puppe's
Flashcard 14: Muscle reaction is _____ in cadaveric rigidity, but alkaline in cadaveric spasm
Answer: acidic
Flashcard 15: _____-coloured PM lividity is due to the formation of methemoglobin.
Answer: Chocolate
Flashcard 16: Earliest internal change in putrefaction is _____ discolouration of the inner surface of vessels
Answer: reddish-brown
Flashcard 17: After death, the temperature of the body falls at the rate of _____ oF/ hour. ( in temperate climates ) or 0.75o F/hr ( tropical climates )
Answer: 1.5
Flashcard 18: _____ uterus resists putrefaction whereas uterus soon after delivery putrefies rapidly.
Answer: Virgin
Flashcard 19: _____ test : Weight of lungs Before respiration : 1/70 of body weight, after respiration : 1/35 of body weight
Answer: Ploucquets
Flashcard 20: _____ is the scientific study of death among human beings in all aspects.
Answer: Thanatology
Flashcard 21: What is the cause of death in hydrocution/immersion syndrome?_____
Answer: Vagal inhibition(of the heart)
Flashcard 22: Post-mortem hypostasis persists until _____
Answer: putrefaction
Flashcard 23: Tests for confirming cessation of circulation:_____ testfluorescent dye on being injected at a given site in a dead body fails to produces any discolouration
Answer: Icards
Flashcard 24: _____ are the first organs to putrefy.
Answer: Larynx and trachea
Flashcard 25: Color of post mortem hypostasis in case of hydrogen sulfide poisoning is _____.
Answer: bluish green
Flashcard 26: Pugilistic attitude/heat stiffening is due to _____
Answer: coagulation of muscle proteins (mechanism)
Flashcard 27: The study of the processes in a firearm is known as _____ ballistics.
Answer: internal
Flashcard 28: Elevated expression of _____ could be used as a criterion to distinguish between intravital petechiae from post-mortem artefacts
Answer: P-selectin
Flashcard 29: Cadaveric spasm is an _____-mortem phenomenon
Answer: ante (post/ante)
Flashcard 30: Artefactual postmortem haemorrhage on the posterior surface of the oesophagus is called _____ artefact.
Answer: Prinsloo and Gordon
Flashcard 31: The rigor mortis changes begins in the _____
Answer: left chamber of the heart.
Flashcard 32: Color of post mortem hypostasis in case of HCN poisoning is _____.
Answer: brick red
Flashcard 33: Gettler's test measures the chloride content of left and right side of the _____.
Answer: heart
Flashcard 34: Tests for confirming cessation of breathing:_____ test mirror held in front of the nose does not turn dim due to any moisture of breath.
Answer: Mirror
Flashcard 35: Whether heat hematoma or EDH will have the same concentration of of COHb as the peripheral blood?_____
Answer: Heat hematoma
Flashcard 36: Pattern of fracture in heat skull fractures commonly resembles a _____
Answer: spider-web
Flashcard 37: At the present time, the _____ test should be used only as an indicative aid and not as legal proof of drowning.
Answer: diatom
Flashcard 38: Heat fracture may cross the suture line and usually _____ involve the sutures, even in young persons with un-united sutures.
Answer: does not (does/does not)
Flashcard 39: Earliest external sign of post-mortem autolysis is whitish, cloudy appearance of _____.
Answer: cornea
Flashcard 40: Only voluntary muscles contact in cadaveric _____
Answer: spasm (spasm/rigidity)
Flashcard 41: _____ is a condition where signs of life are absent as functions are interrupted for sometime or are reduced to minimum.
Answer: Suspended animation
Flashcard 42: _____ minutes of heat application is required for the skull to crack
Answer: 20
Flashcard 43: Time since death can be calculated using the formula :_____
Answer:
Flashcard 44: The conditions favorable for mummification include _____ weather and shallow graves
Answer: hot
Flashcard 45: Warm and humid weather is a favourable condition for _____ formation.
Answer: adipocere (post-mortem change)
Flashcard 46: Early signs of death denote _____ death*include?
Answer: cellular
Flashcard 47: No vital reaction is seen in a(n) _____-mortem wound
Answer: Post (Ante/Post)
Flashcard 48: Fixation of hypostasis occurs _____ hours after death.
Answer: 6 12
Flashcard 49: Immediate signs of death denote _____ death
Answer: somatic
Flashcard 50: IOP reaches zero at the end of _____ hours after death
Answer: 2
Flashcard 51: If air enters the liquor amnii after the death of the fetus, _____ occurs instead of maceration.
Answer: putrefaction
Flashcard 52: Condition in which the temperature of the body remains raised for about first two hours after death is termed as _____
Answer: Postmortem caloricity.
Flashcard 53: _____ is the agent imparting greenish colour in putrefaction
Answer: Sulphmethemoglobin
Flashcard 54: Proof of an ante-mortem fracture of hyoid/thyroid horns can be obtained by demonstrating _____ at the fracture site.
Answer: haemorrhage
Flashcard 55: The order of appearance of rigor mortis:_____
Answer:
Flashcard 56: Suggillation occurs in the dependent parts of the body after death due to _____ distention.
Answer: capillo-venous
Flashcard 57: Cadaveric spasm only indicates _____ of death.
Answer: manner (manner/time)
Flashcard 58: Honeycombing of the liver is a sign of _____.
Answer: putrefaction
Flashcard 59: The likely color of postmortem lividity in Phosphorous poisoning will be _____ or yellow.
Answer: dark brown
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