Legal Med Flashcards
Source of Law passed by congress
Written/statutory law
- laws of the Ph
- Medical Act of 1959
Source of Law which are rights, privileges and responsibilties
Consitutional law
- highest law in the country
Source of Law made by administrative bodies
Administrative law
- Board of Medicine
Source of Law composed of unwritten laws based in the immemorial customs and usages
Common law
- principle of stare decisis
Principle that will adhere to and apply to all future cases
Principle of Stare Decisis
Anything belonging to the court of law or used in court of legal proceedings
Forensic
Law, arising out of, by virtue of or included in law
Legal
Practical science which investigated the nature, development and functions of law
Jurisprudence
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
Microchemical examination
- a positive result is merely PRESUMPTIVE
Florence test
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
Microchemical examination
- SPECIFIC for spermatic fluid
Berberio test
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
Microchemical examination
- very reliable
Puramen reaction
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
Microchemical examination
- CONCLUSIVE of presence of semen
Acid Phosphatase test
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
Microscopic examinations
- stained on slide with hematoxylin/methylene blue and eosin
- Dr Hankin method
2. Ganguli methold - best in India (stain sperm)
Seminal fluid and Spermatozoa examination
BIOLOGICAL examination
Precipitin test
- semen whether HUMAN origin or NOT
Simple seduction elements
- 12-18 years old
- sexual intercourse
- deceit (promise of marriage)
other:
- virginity = NOT an element
- single or widow of good reputation
Qualified Ordinary seduction elements
- 12-18 years old
- sexual intercourse
- abuse of authority and confidence
- VIRGIN
Qualified Incestuous seduction elements
- sexual intercourse
- Ascendant seduce descendant
other:
- need not to be virgin
- may be >18 years old
- not knowing the nature of sexual life and not having the experience
- below the age of puberty
Moral virginity
- permits any form of sexual liberties as long as the abstain from rupturing the hymen
- no penetration of the vagina
Demi virginity
- truly virgin woman
- no structural changes
Virgo intacta
- conscious/knows nature of sexual life
- NO experience
- reached sexual maturity
Physical virgin
- intact hymen
- small opening barely admit the tip of smallest finger
True physical virgin
- unruptured hymen
- orifice is wide and elastic
- can admit 2 or more fingers
False physical virgin
Laceration/rupture of hymen as a result of sexual intercourse
Defloration
Hymenal laceration
<1/2 of the whole width of hymen
Superficial
Hymenal laceration
>1/2 of the whole width of hymen but not reaching the base
Deep
Hymenal laceration
reach beyond the base
Complete
Hymenal laceration
beyond the vagina
complex/complicated
Adultery elements
- Woman is married
- Sexual intercourse who is not her husband
- Man knows that the woman is married (paramour)
Husband keeping a mistress in the conjugal dwelling or having secual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances, who is not his wife
Concubinage
Male - imprisonment up to 6 years
Female - destierro
Prostitute who receives phone calls
Call girl
Prostitute
- street walker
- bar or tavern pick up
Hustler
Prostitue
- new in the field
- frequents small hotels and furnished rooms
Door knocker
Prostitue working in a regular house of prostitution
Factory girl
Type of Homosexual
- Conscious of their homosexual cravings
- NO attempts to diguise their desire
Overt
Type of Homosexual
- may or may not be aware of the tendency in that direction
Latent
Type of Homosexual
- aka lesbianism
Tribadism
Sexual desire towards an immature person
Infantosexual
Pedophilia - may be homosexual or heterosexual
Sexual desire towards animals
Bestosexual
Sexual gratification is attained by having sex with animals
Bestiality (zoophilia)
Self-gratification or masturbation
Autosexual
Sexual desire with elder person
Gerontophilia
Erotic desire or actual sexual intercourse with a CORPSE
Necrophilia
Sexual relations between persons who, by reason of blood relationship cannot legally marry
Incest
Excessive desire of men to have intercourse
Satyriasis
Strong sexual feeling of women
Nymphomania
Absence of sexual desire or arousal during sexual act in women
Sexual anesthesia
Painful sexual act in women
Dyspareunia
Painful spasm of the vagina
Vaginismus
Use of mouth as a way of sexual gratification
Oralism
Female receives the penis into her mouth
Fellation (irrumation)
Licking or sucking the external female genitalia
Cunnilingus
Licking the anus
Anilism (anilingus)
Pain or cruel act as a factor for gratification
Sadomasochism (algolagnia)
The real or fantasized presence of an object or bodily part is necessary for stimulation and gratification
Fetishism
Lesbian practice
“Scissors”
Tribadism
Anal sex
Sodomy
Sexual gratification attained by fingering, fondling with breast, licking parts of the body
Uranism
Compulsive desire of a person to rub sex organ against some parts of the body of another
Frothage
Person has a special affinity to certain prt of the female body
Partialism
Compulsion to peep to see person undreds or perform personal activities
Voyeurism
Sexual pleasure attained by Watching couples undreds or during sexual activity
Mixoscopia (Scoptophilia)
Sexual gratification by watching his own wife performing sexual intercourse with some other man
Troilism
Need to use obscene language
Coprolalia
Promiscuity and making seduction of many women a part of his career
Don Juanism
Willful exposure of genitals to public places
Indecent exposure (Exhibitionism)
Male derived pleasure from wearing female apparel
Transvestism
Dominant desire in some persons to identify themselves with opposite sex as completely as possible
Transexualism
Sexual desire towards statues
Pygmalionism
Ligature is applied around the base of a finger with moderate tightness
Magnus test
Alive: bloodless zone
Dead: no change in color
Examination of peripheral circulation
Injection of fluorescein subcutaneously
Icards test
Alive: dye will spread; greenish-yellowish color
Examination of peripheral circulation
Hours that the body must be buried except:
- legal investigation
- authorized by local health authorities
- embalmed
48 hours
Hours that the bodied must be buried if died of communicable diseases
12 hours
Requirement/s when can a body be cremated
- body must be identified first
not be granted:
- left a written direction
- identity not yet definitely ascertained
Years of disinterment of buried who died of non-communicable disease
after 3 years
Years of disinterment of buried who died of dangerous communicable disease
after 5 years
Wound involves only the layers of the skin
Superficial
Wound goes beyond the layers of the skin but did not come out or the mere piercing of a solid organ
penetrating deep
Wound goes beyond the layers of the skin which produces communication between the inner and outer portions of HOLLOW organs
perforating deep
Physical injury located at the site of application of force
Coup injury
Physical injury located OPPOSITE THE SITE of application of force
Contre-coup injury
Physical injury located at THE SITE AND ALSO OPPOSITE the site of application of force
Coup-contre coup injury
Physical injury located NOT AT THE SITE NOR OPPOSITE the site of application BUT in AREAS offering the LEAST RESISTANCE to the force applied
Locus Minoris Resistencia
Physical injury which involves a greater area of the body beyond the site of the application of force
Extensive injury
Special type of wound as a result of a person’s instinctive reaction of self-protection
Defense wound
Special type of wound in which the nature and shape of an object or instrument which infers the object or instrument causing it
Patterned wound
Special type of wound produced on one’s self and has NO INTENTION to end his life
Self-inflicted wound
Special type of wound produced on one’s self and has INTENTION to end his life
Suicidal wound
number of days of incapacitation from labor for slight physical injury
1-9 days
number of days of incapacitation from labor for less serious physical injury
10 - 29 days
number of days of incapacitation from labor for serious physical injury
> 30 days
Types of open wound
- abrasion
- incision
- stab
- lacerated
- punctured
- hacking
Ante-mortem or post-mortem CLOT?
- firm consistency
- homogenous and cannot be stripped
- uniform color
Ante-mortem clot
post-mortem
- soft
- can be stripped off
- distinct layer
Ante-mortem or post-mortem WOUND?
- copious and generally arterial hemorrhage
- (+) spouting of blood
- (+) clotting
- deeply stained and not removed by washing
- edges gape
- (+) inflammation and reparative process
ante-mortem wound
post-mortem wound
- slight or no hemorrhage
- removed by washing
- do not gape
Skull fracture aka linear fracture
- caused by impact of blunt object
- may appear as radiating crack
Fissure fracture
Skull fracture aka Fractures La Signature
- shows nature of the instrument
Localized depressed fracture
Skull fracture caused by sharp-edged instruments causing clean-cut fracture
Penetrating injuries of the skull
Skull fracture that may develop as a result of a linear or depressed fracture
- spider web comminution of the cranium
eg: near shot with a firearm
Comminuted fractures
Skull fracture common in infants
- may be a result of a simple compression
- “ping pong ball”
Pond or Indented fracture
Skull fracture with a tangential or glancing approach of a bullet
- furrow in the cranium
Gutter fracture
Skull fracture with an extensive fracture running parallel to the two points of contact
eg: passage of wheel over the head
Bursting fracture
Factors inherent on the missile
- speed (greater velocity = greater destruction)
- size and shape (bigger and more deformed = more destruction)
- character of missile’s movement in flight (spinning = more power = more destruction)
Nature of the target
- density (high density = high damage)
- length of tissue (longer distance of travel of missile = more kinetic energy = more destruction)
- nature of media traversed (less damage passing air spaces)
- vitality of the part involved (vital organs = more injury)
comes out of the gun in order
- projectile (bullet)
- flame
- unburned/burned GASES
- burned/unburned/partially burned CARBON
Components of primer
- lead
- antimony
- barium
It is the sudden release of expanded gas from the muzzle following the bullet
muzzle blast
Distance of firearm if there is smudging/soot
<12 inches or <30cm
Distance to be considered short range
1 - 15 cm
Distance to be considered medium range
15 - 60 cm
Distance to be considered far range
> 60 cm
Distance of firearm if there is tattooing/stippling
12 - 24 inches
Number of days Paraffin test should be done or it may lead to negative result
within 3 days
Used to test whether the subject has recently fired a gun or not
Paraffin test
False positive for Paraffin test
- smoker (nicotine)
2. farmers (fertilizers)
False negative for Paraffin test
- excessive hand washing
- wearing of gloves
- more than 3 days
failure of thermoregulatory center and suppression of
sweating
heat STROKE
results from deficiency of water OR salt leading to circulatory insufficiency
- due to heart failure
heat EXHAUSTION
- painful muscle spasms involving the arms and legs or abdomen
- EXCESSIVE sweat LOSS with HIGH WATER INTAKE but without adequate salt replacement
- Dehydration
heat CRAMPS
- Minor disorder characterized by fainting.
- Standing erect and immobile in hot environment due to pooling of blood in blood vessels of the skin and lower body parts
heat SYNCOPE
Anoxic death that is due to decreased capacity of the blood to carry oxygen
Anemic Anoxic Death
Anoxic death brought about by failure of circulation
Stagnant Anoxic Death
Anoxic death due to failure of cellular oxidative process
Histotoxic anoxic death
Sudden heart attack in the middlr of dinner due to asphyxia by choking
Café coronary
Patient in prone position and the operator exerts pressure on the lower ribs at the rate of 12-15 times per minute
Schaefer method
- emergency treatment in drowning
Swing the arms of the patient forward and then pressing the chest wall every 3-5 seconds
Sylvester method
- emergency treatment in drowning
Skin is puckered and pale seen in drowning
Cutis anserina / goose flesh
Whitish foam that accumulates in the mouth and nostrils seen in drowning
Champignon d’ocume
Quantitative determination of chloride content of blood in the right and left ventricles of the heart
Gettler Test
saLt = Left fResh = right
Bronze color of the head and neck of a person who fies in water during the process of decomposition (drowning)
Tete de negri
Murderer kneels or sits on the chest, and with his hands, closes the nostrils and mouth of the victim
Burking
Type of death may be classified as traumatic asphyxia and may die due to difficulty of chest movement
Crucifixion
Test to determine whether respiration took place on a newborn before death
Hypostatic test
- Fodere test
- Static test
- Dip organs in water
- organs will float and air bubbles are liberated to the surface water (breathing has taken place)
Stomach bowel test / Floatation test / Breslau second life test
The disappearance of the gelatinous embryonic connective tissue in the middle ear is a sign of birth
Wredin test
It is the civil status of the father with respect to the child begotten to him
Paternity
It is the civil status of the child in relation to its mother
Filiation
Child born:
- after 180 days following marriage OR
- within 300 days following dissolution of marriage
- born in lawful wedlock
Legitimate (Proper) children
Child born:
- out of wedlock
Requisites:
- child must be natural
- must be acknowledged by both parents before marriage
- there must be subsequent marriage
Legitimated
The act or proceeding by which relations of paternity and filiation are recognized as legally existing between persons not so related by nature
Adoption
Child born:
- out of lawful wedlock OR
- after a competent time after its dissolution
Illegitimate
Illegitimate children who are not considered natural
Spurious children
Children conceived by prostitues
Manceres
Children conceived in an act of adultery or concubinage
Adulterous children
Children born of patents who ahvr been ordained in sacris (priest and nun)
Sacrelegious children
Children born from parents with blood relationship
Incestuous children
Maternity leave dates
2 weeks before expected delivery and
4 weeks after delivery/abortion
Age of female that may be married
- 14 and above
- above 18 and below 23: ask for parental consent
Age of male that may be married
- 16 and above
- above 20 and below 25: ask for parental consent
Presidential decree number of instruction on family planning as a requisite fot marriage license
PD 965