Abandonment and Neglect — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ of meconium in the large bowel is a confirmatory sign of live birth.

Answer: Absence

Flashcard 2: When a woman simulates pregnancy and delivery to present another's child as her own (no real gestation), the child is said to be _____ or fictitious.

Answer: supposititious

Flashcard 3: _____ is an incremental line found in the enamel that indicates that an infant was live born

Answer: Neonatal line

Flashcard 4: Section _____ deals with preventing the child from being born alive or to cause it to die after birth

Answer: 315

Flashcard 5: Section _____ and 316 discusses the offence of infanticide and foeticide.

Answer: 315

Flashcard 6: A respired lung (live birth) may sink in water (False Negative Hydrostatic Test) in the following conditions:

Answer: 1. Atelectasis (Primary or Secondary) 2. Consolidation (e.g., Pneumonia) 3. Hyaline Membrane Disease 4. Mummification (Other factors include pulmonary edema and massive hemorrhage)

Flashcard 7: egg shell forms _____% of egg weight

Answer: 10

Extra: 

Flashcard 8: In Breslaus _____ life test, also known as the Stomach bowel test, stomach and the duodenum are tested.

Answer: second