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medicine and state medicine are other names for it.
Medical jurisprudence: deals with the legal rights, privileges, duties and obligations of medical practitioner.
Points to remember
1. Pin point pupils = Opium
2. Dilatation of pupils = Dhatura, Cyanide
3. Constriction of pupils = Opium, phenol, organo-phosphorus, physostigmine, chloral hydrate.
4. Cumulative poisons are: Barbiturates, and methyl alcohol
5. Habit forming poisons are: Caffeine and Nicotine.
6. Addiction drugs are: Alcohol, Barbiturates, Coccaine, Cannabis, Chloral hydrate, Opium, Pethidine.
7. Hemodialysis is good value in: Salicylate, methanol, barbiturate, and aspirin (except kerosene oil and diazephem)
8. 1st sign of intra-uterine death: Gas shadow in aorta (as early as 12 hours).
9. Increased anion gap is seen in Salicylate poisoning, lactic acidosis, starvation.
10. Ideal suicide poison = Cyanide
11. Ideal homicide poison = Thallium, fluoride compounds.
12. Commonly used homicidal poisons: Arsenic, aconite
13. Commonly used suicidal poisons: Endrine, Opium, Barbiturates, Organo-phosphorus compounds.
14. Poison resembling cholera = Arsenic
15. Poison resembling tetanus = Strychnine
16. Poison resembling natural death = Thallium
17. Poison resembling fading measles = Arsenic
18. Poison resembling thyrotoxicosis = Bi-nitro compounds.
Tests for detecting poisons:
Arsenic = Marshs test, Reinschs test
Opium = Marquis test
Alcohol = Mcevans test
Datura = Mydriatic test
Phenol = Green urine.
1. The Percentage of blood alcohol in the stage of dead drunk is 0.5%.
2. Pisiform gets ossified by 12 yrs of age.
3. By 14 yrs. patella gets ossified.
4. Anterior fontanelle closes by 18 months of age.
5. The height of a child is double of birth height by 4 years of age,
6. Under IPC, a person below 7 years is not criminally responsible.
7. Fatal period of Datura poisoning is 24 hours.
8. In India, rigor mortis sets within 1-2 hours.
9. While dispatching blood and urine for chemical analysis, sodium fluoride is added as preservative in concentration of 50
mg/10ml.
10. Critical level of alcohol in blood is 0.15%.
11. The minimum age for giving consent for surgery is 18 years.
12. In fractured ends of bone, soft provisional callus is formed by 15 hours.
13. The minimum time required for adipocere formation in a dead body is 21 days.
14. Indian Medical Council Act was enacted in 1956.
15. Mental retardation is I.Q. Below 70.
16. Ratio between ethyl alcohol in blood to urine is 1:1.33
17. Gas rigidity appears after 72 hours.
18. Marbling is noticed by 36 hours.
19. Full development of rigor mortis takes about 12 hours.
20. In exhumation, 6-7 samples of earth are collected.
21. Intercourse with wife below 15 years of age is considerable rape.
22. Fatal period of aconite isusually 1-5 hours.
23. Cooling of body is gradual upto 1-3 hours.
24. Hypostasis is mottled within first 3 hours of death.
25. Killing range of a militry rifle is 3000 yards.
26. Juvenile offender is a person under 16 years
27. The dispersion of pellets is seen usually at distance beyond 10 feet.
28. In a gunshot wound, the presence of singeing of hair or charring of skin denotes a fire up to 18 inches.
29. Dispersion of pellets in shotgun injury is calculated as dispersion in inches = 1.5 times the dispersion in yards.
30. An infant born before 210 days is not legally considered capable of maintaining a separate existence.
31. A bruise showing bluish black discolouration is 4 days old.
32. The upper limit of safety for carbon monoxide in air is 0.01%.
33. Rh positivity in India is 93%.
34. In an abrasion, the scab usually dries and falls between 4-6 days.
35. Fatal dose of opium is 2 gm.
judicial investigation. It can be oral (direct, indirect or hearsay), documentary & circumstantial.
150. Hurt is defined as bodily pain, disease or infirmity caused to any person.
151. Injury includes every inquiry other than a trial, conducted by a Magistrate or court.
152. Investigation includes all the proceedings for the collection of evidence conducted by a Police officer or by any person
other than a magistrate who is authorised by a magistrate on his behalf.
153. Jury means a body of persons sworn to render verdict in a court of justice. It is composed of uneven number and not
less than 7 and more than 9 persons.
154. Metropolitan area means any area in the state comprising a city or a town whose population exceeds one millin.
155. Offence means any act of omission made punishable by law for the time being in force.
156. Perjury means wilful utterance of falsehood under oath.
157. Plantiff is one who brings an action in a court of law.
158. Summons case means a case relating to an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years
159. Testimony means the evidence, oral or written, of a witness under under oath.
160. Warrant means a written authority under hand and seal. It is used for the arrest of persons or for their forcible
production in a court of law
161. Traumatic rupture of hymen is seen on posterolateral aspect.
162. Taylor gave a formula on rate of decomposition of dead body in air, water and earth.
163. Most reliable method of determining personal identity is Dactylography.
164. Contre-Coupe injury is seen in head injury.
165. Strychnine acts on anterior horn cells.
166. Last organ to putrefy in mate is prostate whereas in female it is ungravid uteus.
167. In Carboluria, urine turns green on exposure to air.
168. Cyanide poisoning produces cherry red colo
169. McEwens sign is seen in alcoholism.
170. Cutis anserina is seen in drowning.
171. Shaking palsy or mad Hatters is seen with mercury poisoning.
172. Poison which can be detected in burnt bodies in arsenic.
173. Cepahlic index helps in identification of race.
174. Tentative cuts are seen in suicides.
175. Pugilistic attitude is seen in antemortem or postmortem burns.
176. Death in police custody is investigated by Magistrate.
177. Precipitin test is used to identify human blood in stains.
178. Gelsimium is a spinal cord poison.
179. Desferroxamine is antidote used in iron poisoning.
180. Spaldings sign is seen in maceration.
181. Impotence is inability to perform the sexual act.
182. Smack is crude form of heroin.
183. Ganja is obtained from flowering tops.
184. Stomach may be greenish in poisoning due to nitric acid.
185. Lines of Zahn are present in antemortem clots.
186. Conium is a peripheral poison.
187. Emphysema aqueosum is seen in wet drowning.
188. Formication (Magnans symptom) is seen in cocaine dependence.
189. Rigor mortis is simulated by cadaveric spasm.
190. Thorn apple is Datura stramonium.
191. Dirt collar is seen in fire arm entry wound.
192. Apoplexy is cerebral congestion.
193. Feminine of impotence is frigidity.
194. In oath taking, a medical man does not require to keep his hands on a holy book.
195. Thanatology is science that deals with death.
196. Number of hours since death is calculated by multiplying the fall in rectal temperature with 0.67.
197. Dichotomy is related to splitting of fees.
198. Fracture of hyoid bone in a case of strangulation is commonly seen in the greater horn.
199. In a fresh case of death due to ventricular fibrillation, heart at postmortem will be flabby.
200. Punctate basophilia is seen in lead poisoning.
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601. The compounds used for taking finger prints are French chalk, lead carbonate and mercury
602. Central pocket loop is a variety of Composite finger print
603. Reaction phenomenon is seen drowning
604. Alcoholic palimpsests are a type of blackout
605. Arsenic poisoning may lead to thrombocytopenia, leukemia and BM suppression
606. In arsenic poisoning, bands of opacity in finger nails are called Aldrich-Mees lines
607. Affiliation cases are related to paternity dispute
608. Kennedy phenomenon results due to surgical alteration
609. Incineration, dismembement and advanced putrefaction are methods of effacement of identity
610. Moletova cocktail is a bomb
611. Medullary index is used to determine sex
612. Harrison and Gilroy test is used for firearm injury
613. After respiration, the weight of lungs increases by about 30 gm
614. The most characteristic defence injuries are those sustained during an attack by knife
615. Ploucquets test is used to estimate live birth
616. Weight of pineal gland is 0.1 to 0.2 gm
617. In smothering, there is abrasion on the inner side of upper lip
618. Death during anaesthesia, D.C. to be written by anaesthesist
619. Privileged communication may be used by a doctor to blackmail his patients
620. Repeated intentional advertisement by a doctor in newspaper is professional misconduct
621. Oath taking in the court is court formality
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16 years age of female is an age to give valid consent for lawful sexual intercourse
Age of consent for medical examination is after eruption of III molar
Fragmentary medulla is seen in Negroid
For saliva, test used is alpha amylase test
Rule of Haase is used for estimation of foetal age
Wilsons classification is used to classify burns
Drugs interfering in blood grouping are barbiturate, aspirin and heparin
Phenol also retards putrefaction
In strangulation, neck muscle rupture is common
In fresh water poisoning, there may be hyperkalemia, hemolysis and ventricular fibrillation
Brain stem death occurs in encephalomyelitis
Postmortem examination is done for all organ of the body
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Sec 118 IPCConcealing design to commit offence punishable with death or improsonment for life.
2. Sec 176, IPCOmission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it.
3. Sec 177 IPCFurnishing false information.
4. Sec 182 IPCFalse information with intent to cause public servant to use lawful power to the injury of another
person. .Sec 191 IPCGiving false evidence
5. Sec 192 IPCFabricating false evidence.
6. Sec 193 IPCPunishment for false evidence.
7. Sec 194 IPCGiving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence.
8. Sec 195 IPC Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with
imprisonment for life or imprisonment.
9. Sec 197 IPCIssuing or signing false certificates.
10. Sec 201 IPCCausing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offenders.
11. Sec 203 IPCGiving false information respecting an offence committed.
12. Sec 204 IPCDestruction of document to prevent its production as evidence.
13. Sec 284 IPC Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substances.
14. Sec 304 IPCCausing death by negligence.
15. Sec 309 IPCAttempt to commit suicide
16. Sec 313 IPCCausing miscarriage without womans consent.
17. Sec 318 IPCConcealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body.
18. Sec 319 IPCHurt.
19. Sec 320 IPCGrievous hurt.
20. Sec 351 IPCAssault.
21. Sec 362 IPCAbduction.
22. Sec 375 IPC Rape.
23. Sec 376 IPCPunishment for rape.
24. Sec 377 IPCUnnatural offences.
25. Sec 497 IPCAdultery.
26. Sec 39 Cr. P.CEvery person, aware of the commission of or of the intention of any other person to commit any
offence is punishable under I.P.C. shall forthwith give information to the nearest magistrate of police officer of such
commission or intention.
27. Sec 84 IPCNothing is an offence which is done by a person who at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness
of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act or what he is doing is either wrong or contrary to law.
28. ConfabulationPathological loss of memory, e.g. Korsakoff s psychosis. Early stages of dementia.