Forensic medicine - Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Forensic Medicine Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Forensic Medicine Introduction 1.

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The practice of forensic medicine - Answer (click here) Cause of death - Answer (click here) The primary cause of death - Answer (click here) The inquest - Answer (click here) Violence and causes of death in country - Answer (click here)

Basic anatomy and physiology 1.

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General structure and working of the body - Answer (click here) The skeleton - Answer (click here) The muscles - Answer (click here) The nervous system - Answer (click here) Contents of the cavities of the chest and abdomen - Answer (click here) The skin - Answer (click here) The working of the body - Answer (click here) The digestion stage - Answer (click here) Use of foods and oxygen in the body - Answer (click here) Excretion of waste matter - Answer (click here) Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here) The blood vessels - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here) The heart - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here) The portal circulation - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here) Valves of the heart - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here) The pulse - Answer (click here) Bleeding from arteries and veins - Answer (click here) Respiration - Answer (click here)

Post mortem changes

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Post-mortem changes - Answer (click here) Early post-mortem changes - Answer (click here) Late post-mortem changes - Answer (click here) Relevant topics - Post-mortem changes - Answer (click here)

Identification 1.

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Forensic Medicine: Identification - Answer (click here) Forensic Medicine: Age determination - Answer (click here) Determination of sex - Answer (click here) Determining height - Answer (click here) Determining ethnic type (race) - Answer (click here) Personal identity - Forensic Medicine - Answer (click here) Molecular biology - Forensic Medicine - Answer (click here) Case studies: Comparison of skulls and photographs - Answer (click here)

General traumatology 1.

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Definition of trauma - Answer (click here) Types of trauma - Answer (click here) Mechanical trauma - Answer (click here) Classification of mechanical trauma - Answer (click here) Description of wounds - Answer (click here) Dating of wounds - Answer (click here)

Complications of trauma 1.

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Shock - Answer (click here) Embolism - Answer (click here) Pneumothorax - Answer (click here)

Head injuries 1.

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Head injuries - Answer (click here) Classification of head injuries - Answer (click here) Types of head injuries - Answer (click here)

Asphyxia 1.

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Anoxia/hypoxia - Answer (click here) Classification of asphyxic deaths - Answer (click here) 'Classical' signs of asphyxia - Answer (click here)

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Causes of asphyxic death: Suffocation - Answer (click here) Causes of asphyxic death: Smothering - Answer (click here) Causes of asphyxic death: Choking - Answer (click here) Causes of asphyxic death: Restriction of respiratory movements - Answer (click here)

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Causes of asphyxic death: Deaths due to pressure on the neck - Answer (click here)

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Causes of asphyxic death: Hanging - Answer (click here) Causes of asphyxic death: Auto-erotic deaths - Answer (click here) Causes of asphyxic death: Drowning - Answer (click here)

Firearm injuries 1.

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Firearm injuries - Answer (click here) Pathophysiology of gunshot wounds and wound ballistics - Answer (click here)

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Examination of the body - Answer (click here) Cutaneous (skin) entrance wounds caused by rifled firearms - Answer (click here)

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Cutaneous gunshot exit wounds caused by rifled firearms - Answer (click here)

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Gunshot wounds caused by smooth-bore firearms (shotguns) - Answer (click here)

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Injury by rubber and plastic bullets - Answer (click here) Industrial nail guns - Answer (click here) Blank cartridge injuries - Answer (click here) Accident, suicide or homicide? - Answer (click here)

Thermal electrical atmospheric pressure and radiation associated deaths 1.

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Deaths caused by abnormal temperatures - Answer (click here) Deaths caused by electricity - Answer (click here) Death due to radiation - Answer (click here) Diseases due to atmospheric pressure - Answer (click here)

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Toxicology and alcohol - Answer (click here) Toxicology in general - Answer (click here) Carbon-monoxide poisoning - Answer (click here) Alcohol - Answer (click here)

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Production of alcohol - Answer (click here) Pharmacodynamics of alcohol - Answer (click here) Alcohol-level analysis - Answer (click here) Alcohol: Calculations - Answer (click here) Alcohol: Pharmacological effect - Answer (click here) The role of alcohol in unnatural deaths - Answer (click here)

Pregnancy associated deaths 1.

Causes of maternal death - Answer (click here)

Paediatric forensic pathology 1.

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Paediatric forensic pathology - Answer (click here) Infanticide and concealment of birth - Answer (click here) The battered-baby syndrome (Caffey's syndrome or non-accidental injury syndrome) - Answer (click here) Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or Cot death) - Answer (click here)

Sexual offences 1.

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Rape - Answer (click here) Sexually transmitted diseases - Answer (click here) Interpretation of clinical findings - Answer (click here) Sodomy (buggery; anal intercourse) - Answer (click here)