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LEGAL MEDICINE AND JURISPRUDENCE Flashcards

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Fingerprinting is considered to be the best valuable method of identification. It is universally used because fingerprints until decomposition are not changeable by the time they are formed in the fetus suring pregnancy in the

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fourth week

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spread fingers wide and view through strong light

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Diaphanus Test

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Blood that does not clot and acidic in ph with the presence of epithelial cells and dodarlain microorganisms

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Menstrual blood

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This test is positive to any substance containing hemoglobin

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Takayama Test

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The test used to determine whether semen is if human irigin or not

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Precipitin

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DNA typing method where the small sample size is chemically amplified to produce large amounts

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Polymerase Chain Reaction Method

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Indentations left in soft or pliable materials belong to what type of fingerprints

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Plastic

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art and study of recording fingerprints as a means of identification

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Dactylography

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What us the source when blood is dark red in color and has a low oxygen content in a crime scene

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Venous

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The race of a living person may be presumed in the features of the face. A person with thick lips and prominent eyes is presumed a

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Negro

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Chemical test that is used to determine if the stain is of blood origin or not

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Benzidine Test

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The art of identification of fingerprints by comparison

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Dactyloscopy

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A reddish cake brown material was found on the sleeve of the suspects shirt. The test that is used to determine whether the stain is blood or not

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Icards Test

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Hair that is fine deficient of pigments and devoid of medulla belongs to

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Old person

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Fingerprint may persist if not removed at the scene for

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years

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One way to determine whether hair is if human origin or animal origin

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by determination of medullary index

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One method to approximate the height if the cadaver with the extremities missing is to measure

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length of the head times eight

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In the ordinary method of human identification applicable to the living person, the fascies is a characteristic not easily changed. Which appearance of the face is indicative of approaching death?

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Hippocratic fascies

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Barr bodies observed in scraping if the mucus membrane of the mouth a test ti determine the sex of the body is

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Chromosomal Test

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A method of identification wherein a verbal, accurate and picturesque description of the person identified

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Portrait parle

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This is quantitative determination of the chloride content of the blood in the right and left ventricle of the heart

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Gettler’s Test

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A common law husband who kills his common law wife with whom he has 2 days old child can be prosecuted for

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Homicide

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It is an expressed acknowledgement by the accused in a criminal case of the truth of his guilt as the crime charged

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Confession

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The presence of weapon which is highly grasp by the hand of a victim of a shooting incident is an example of

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Cadaveric spasm

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Cases when trauma or disease kill quickly that there is no opportunity for sequel or complication to develop is known as

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Immediate cause of death

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the comphrehensive study of a dead body performed by trained physician employing recognized procedures and techniques

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Autopsy

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The principle used in the Magnus test for determining somatic death is

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No change in color of the finger

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When the body surface of corpse is pressed it leaves a flattened are due to

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Loss of elasticity of the skin

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Permission to disinter remains of persons who died of dangerous communicable diseases maybe granted after aburial period of

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5 years

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The most prominent sign of death is

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progressive fall of the body temperature

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should be tested in suspected cases of lead poisoning

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liver

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The condition where the body becomes soft and flaccid after the disappearance of rigor mortis us called

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Stage of secondary flaccidity

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the medico legal importance of post mortem lividity is

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reliable sign of death

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33
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Tardieu spots are associated with

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Hanging

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The state if complete cessation of respiration and other bital functions of the brain heart etc which maintain life and health. It occurs the moment the physician or other people declare the person has expired and some signs are present and hardly possible to determine the time exactly is termed as

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Somatic death

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In cases if murders it is important to note the state of the body when found as there is a chronological sequence of putrefactive changes. When the body is found alreasy skeletonized the approximate time of death us about

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1 month or more

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the presence of many stab wounds inflicted on a victim who died points to

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Murder

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A post mortem wound differs from ante mortem wound in that

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there is no clotting of blood

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the most important seterminant in the wounding capacity of a bullet is

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Bullet momentum

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The physical phenomenon when there is more shocking or knock diwn power of the bullet is

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Shock wave

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The production if the furrow in the cranium called gutter fracture is caused by

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Tangential approach of the bullet

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how soon after driwning dies the body float

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within 24 hours

42
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a whitish foam in the mouth and nostrils as a sign if drowning is

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champignon d’ocume

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Tetw de negri or the bronze discoloration of the head and neck of a dead person is observed in

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drowning

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Accidental death of a young child by suffication either from the pressure if the beddings and pillows or from the pressure if the unconscious or drunk mother is called

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overlaying

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Covering both nostrils and mouth by a pillow may cause death due to

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asphyxia by smothering

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a special form of strangulation with the assailant standing at the back of the victim and the forearm is applied infront of the neck is called

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mugging

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the cause of death in wrestling where the knees if the offender is applied on the victims neck is

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mugging

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a form of asphyxial death wherein pressure on the trachea is caused by placing the neck at the bend of the elbow is called

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Burking

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the type of asphyxial death when oxygen is delivered to the tissues but cannot be utilized properly due to failure of cellular oxidative process is

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Histotoxic

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Asphyxial death that is classifies as anoxic death

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traumatic crash asphyxia

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a form of judicial death in our country by civil authorities

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death by lethal injection

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a writing from a competent authority is a pursuance of law directing the doing of an act and addressed to an officer or person competent to do the act and affording him protection from damages if he does it is termed as

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warrant

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a breast slightly elevated from the chest without distinct boundary and showing no definite shape is known as

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Infantile breast

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Imprisonment or incarceration for 6 months and one day to 6 years is classified as

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Prison correctional

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It concerns the state in its sovereign or political capacity to enforce or regulate the excercise of a right duty or obligation imposed on the subject

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Criminal law

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the reporting of treatment of serious physical injuries by a physician is

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mandatory

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Average time required for death in drowning

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2-5 minutes

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Living in very high altitude may cause what type of asphyxial death

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Anoxic

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What is post-mortem caloricity due to

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Early putrefactive changes

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Hastens cooling of the body after \death

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Leanness of the body

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First stage of muscular changes after death

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Muscular irritability

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Organ that putrefy early

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Liver

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Death by electrocution

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Shock

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According to the administrative code an unembalmed dead body should be buried within how long after death

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48 hours

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The prominence and coloration of superficial veins more visible among people with fair complexion during decomposition is called

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Marbolization

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The crime of Mutilation is understood to mean

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Intentionally cutting off any reproductive part of the body

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In a cadaver the chemical change of body fat which takes place in wet conditions and results in soft brownish white substance is known as

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Adipocere formation

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Alqor mortis refers to

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Cooling of the body

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When blood accumulates in the most dependent portions of the dead body, it is called

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Post-mortem lividity

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Cutis Galina or washer woman’s hands and feet on the corpse signifies that

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the body has been in water sometime

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The willful deliberate and painless acceleration of death of a person

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Euthanasia

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The cause of death resulting from lack of skill, lack of foresight and reckless imprudence is called

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Negligence

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Any change for the position of the cadaver will not change the location of this type of cadaveric lividity

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Diffusion

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Exhumation is also known as

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Disinterment

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deep burial sites will make decomposition

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slower

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A missing person is presumed dead if he is not heard from for

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4 years

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Musketry, electrocution and hanging is an example of

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Judicial death

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If the physician performs euthanasia without the patient’s knowledge, he is guilty of

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Murder

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Cadaveric rigidity is also known as

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Rigor mortis

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The convict is put to death by a volley of fire from a firing squad

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Musketry

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If the person died as a result of a communicable disease and is unembalmed it should be buried not later than

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12 hours

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If one performed lawful act and he did it with due care and death occured without intending to cause it, the death is

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Accidental

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Instantaneous rigor is

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Cadaveric spasm

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The microorganism that plays a dominant role in decomposition is

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Clostridium welchii

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Rigor mortis in the tropics lasts on the average for about how many hours

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48-72 hours

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When death by asphyxia is produced by compression of the neck by means of ligature which is tighthened by a force other than the weight of the body is known as

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Death by strangulation

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This finding suggest suicide

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presence of hesitation cuts or tentative incisions

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A couple was found dead inside a car in the basement parking area. The possible cause of death is

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

89
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During autopsy the _____________ should be opened first

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Cranial box

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After death, which organ putrefies last

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Spleen

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What organ is tested for chlorine in drowning

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Heart

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What is the basis to pronounced a person dead

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Molecular death

93
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A medico legal autopsy is performed to

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explain sudden death of a person apparently in good health

94
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Weapons, fingerprints and garments left at the crime scene are examples of what type of evidence

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Corpus delicti (Body of the crime)

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The medico legal classification of death due to injuries inflicted upon the body by some form of outside force that is the proximate cause thereof

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Violent

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The performance of Caesarean section when the pregnancy is normal and uncomplicated is reffered to as

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Defensive medicine

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What is applied in the dorsum of the hand of a person subjected to paraffin test

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wax

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As a result of the deformity she sustained from a facelift operation, Juana sued Dr. Hannibal fro mental anguish and humiliation and moral shock. The type of damages she can recover as a result of these is

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Moral damages

99
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The penalty for abandonment under 7 years old

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Arresto mayor plus fine

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