Cause of Death

Question 1

Who are the persons authorized to perform autopsies?

Answer 1

1. Health Officers, 2.) Medical officers of law enforcement agencies 3.) Medical staff of accredited hospitals

Question 2

The primary incision during autopsies must be from ____ to the _____ passing to the _____

Answer 2

Suprasternal notch to the pubic symphysis passing to the left of the umbilicus

Question 3

____ is the term if after all effort, including gross and and microscopic and toxicological analyses fail to reveal a cause of death

Answer 3

Negative autopsy

Question 4

____ is the term wherein no cause of death is found on the account of imprudence, negligence, lack of skill or lack of foresight of the examiner

Answer 4

Negligent autopsy

Question 5

____ (cause of death) where the injury or disease was survived for a sufficiently prolonged interval which permitted the development of serious sequelae leading to death.

Answer 5

Proximate (secondary) cause of death

Question 6

____ term when any person shall kill his father, mother child

Answer 6

Parricidal death punished by reclusion perpetua

Question 7

Infanticide is killing a child less than ___ days old

Answer 7

3 days.

if killing was for concealment of dishonor, punishment is prision correccional.

Question 8

A pharmacist wrongly compounded a prescription resulting to “almost” death of a patient. What did she commit?

Answer 8

Physical injuries through reckless imprudence

It is not frustrated homicide since there is no intent to kill

Question 9

____ is when a person kills another person (not parricide of infanticide) due to price or reward

Answer 9

murder

Question 10

____ is when the offender has no intention to kill the victim

Answer 10

homicide

Question 11

___ is the penalty for a legally married person having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another person OR parents with respect to their daughters under 18 years old and their seducers

Answer 11

destierrro