Legal Medicine

Question 1

Apply medicine to the law

Answer 1

Legal medicine. Forensic pathology

Question 2

Civil status of the father with respect to the child begotten by him

Answer 2

Paternity

Question 3

Which line inthe death certificate should not be left blank

Answer 3

Part 1, 3rd line

Question 4

Investigate deaths

Answer 4

To establish fact of death, identity of the disease, determine cause of death, determine manner of death, to gather evidence

Question 5

Three pe of medico legal system

Answer 5

Coroner, medical examiner, medico-legal officer (solis)

Question 6

Pd 856

Answer 6

Sanitation code of the philippines

Question 7

T ro F: any doctor is authorized to perform an autopsy

Answer 7

T (in the philippines)

Question 8

Hospital autopsy

Answer 8

Academic. Patient already identified. Just want to know cause of death. Manner is natural. Need consent of kin. Results are subject to confidentiality.

Question 9

Forensic autopsy.

Answer 9

Correlation with scene of death. Identification often uncertain. Seeks cause and manner of death.

Question 10

External examination in forensic pathology

Answer 10

Injuries, distinguishing marks, tatios, scars, iatrogenic marks

Question 11

Other procedures for forensic autopsy

Answer 11

Postmortem xray, body fluids

Question 12

Remomval of internal organs in b,ocks

Answer 12

Evisceration

Question 13

Organs usually weighed in forensic autopsy

Answer 13

Brain lungs heart kidneys liver spleen

Question 14

Post mortem changes

Answer 14

Fluids from the mouth and nose (unsepcific)
Algor mortis (cooling of the body, then will be warm again due to starting decomposition of the body)
Rigor mortis (stiffenning of the body, not permanent, will be flaccid through time)
Livor mortis (pooling of blood due to gravity, body parts on contact with surface are the pale areas

Question 15

Postmortem core body temperature

Answer 15

Using a meat temperature in the liver. Pweds rectal, and nasal.

Question 16

Cadaveric spasm

Answer 16

Instantaneous rigor,

Question 17

Cutis anserina

Answer 17

“Goose pimples” after death

Question 18

Putrefaction

Answer 18

Rotting of the body. Bloatedness. Foul odor. (Methane) Arborizing pattern in the skin due to the bacteria.

Question 19

Mummification

Answer 19

Dead body in dry and warm environment

Question 20

Adipocere formation

Answer 20

Dead body in warm and moist environment. Foul odor. Waxy appearance. Classically seen in bodies fished out of the water.

Question 21

Cremation

Answer 21

Dead body subjected to high temperature

Question 22

Tache noir de la sclerotique

Answer 22

Post mortem drying of the conjunctival surface (bulbar conjucntiva). Due to exposed part of eye postmortem.

Question 23

Chemical preservation of the dead body

Answer 23

Embalming

Question 24

Alphonse bertillon

Answer 24

Bertillonage. First devised a way to identify dead bodies. Replaced by finger prints

Question 25

T or F: visual identification is the most reliable method of identification of dead bodies

Answer 25

F. Visual identification the least reliable. More definitive (finegrprints, dna, teeth, some xrays: in comparison to antemortem)

Question 26

Apply law to medicine

Answer 26

Medical jurisprudence