Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Section _____ of BNS (corresponding to IPC 316) states that causing the death of a quick unborn child by an act amounting to culpable homicide is a punishable offence.

Answer: 92

Extra: - **BNS 91 (IPC 315):** Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth. - **BNS 92 (IPC 316):** Causing death of quick unborn child by an act amounting to culpable homicide.

Flashcard 2: Infanticide is considered as murder and hence punishment is given under section _____ IPC.

Answer: 302

Flashcard 3: Section _____ deals with preventing the child from being born alive or to cause it to die after birth

Answer: 315

Flashcard 4: Infanticide is punished under IPC _____

Answer: 302

Flashcard 5: 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 6: egg shell forms _____% of egg weight

Answer: 10

Extra: 

Flashcard 7: In Breslaus _____ life test, also known as the Stomach bowel test, stomach and the duodenum are tested.

Answer: second

Flashcard 8: _____ of meconium in the large bowel is a confirmatory sign of live birth.

Answer: Absence

Flashcard 9: Hydrostatic test is false positive in case of _____ or artificial inflation

Answer: putrefied foetus