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

Subject : Forensic Medicine

Introduction

1. The practice of forensic medicine - Answer (click here)
2. Cause of death - Answer (click here)
3. The primary cause of death - Answer (click here)
4. The inquest - Answer (click here)
5. Violence and causes of death in country - Answer (click here)

Basic anatomy and physiology

1. General structure and working of the body - Answer (click here)
2. The skeleton - Answer (click here)
3. The muscles - Answer (click here)
4. The nervous system - Answer (click here)
5. Contents of the cavities of the chest and abdomen - Answer (click here)
6. The skin - Answer (click here)
7. The working of the body - Answer (click here)
8. The digestion stage - Answer (click here)
9. Use of foods and oxygen in the body - Answer (click here)
10. Excretion of waste matter - Answer (click here)
11. Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here)
12. The blood vessels - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here)
13. The heart - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here)
14. The portal circulation - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here)
15. Valves of the heart - Circulation of the blood - Answer (click here)
16. The pulse - Answer (click here)
17. Bleeding from arteries and veins - Answer (click here)
18. Respiration - Answer (click here)

Post mortem changes

1. Post-mortem changes - Answer (click here)
2. Early post-mortem changes - Answer (click here)
3. Late post-mortem changes - Answer (click here)
4. Relevant topics - Post-mortem changes - Answer (click here)

Identification

1. Forensic Medicine: Identification - Answer (click here)
2. Forensic Medicine: Age determination - Answer (click here)
3. Determination of sex - Answer (click here)
4. Determining height - Answer (click here)
5. Determining ethnic type (race) - Answer (click here)
6. Personal identity - Forensic Medicine - Answer (click here)
7. Molecular biology - Forensic Medicine - Answer (click here)
8. Case studies: Comparison of skulls and photographs - Answer (click here)

General traumatology

1. Definition of trauma - Answer (click here)
2. Types of trauma - Answer (click here)
3. Mechanical trauma - Answer (click here)
4. Classification of mechanical trauma - Answer (click here)
5. Description of wounds - Answer (click here)
6. Dating of wounds - Answer (click here)

Complications of trauma

1. Shock - Answer (click here)
2. Embolism - Answer (click here)
3. Pneumothorax - Answer (click here)

Head injuries

1. Head injuries - Answer (click here)
2. Classification of head injuries - Answer (click here)
3. Types of head injuries - Answer (click here)

Asphyxia

1. Anoxia/hypoxia - Answer (click here)
2. Classification of asphyxic deaths - Answer (click here)
3. 'Classical' signs of asphyxia - Answer (click here)
4. Causes of asphyxic death: Suffocation - Answer (click here)
5. Causes of asphyxic death: Smothering - Answer (click here)
6. Causes of asphyxic death: Choking - Answer (click here)
7. Causes of asphyxic death: Restriction of respiratory movements - Answer (click here)
8. Causes of asphyxic death: Deaths due to pressure on the neck - Answer (click here)
9. Causes of asphyxic death: Hanging - Answer (click here)
10. Causes of asphyxic death: Auto-erotic deaths - Answer (click here)
11. Causes of asphyxic death: Drowning - Answer (click here)

Firearm injuries

1. Firearm injuries - Answer (click here)
2. Pathophysiology of gunshot wounds and wound ballistics - Answer (click here)
3. Examination of the body - Answer (click here)
4. Cutaneous (skin) entrance wounds caused by rifled firearms - Answer (click here)
5. Cutaneous gunshot exit wounds caused by rifled firearms - Answer (click here)
6. Gunshot wounds caused by smooth-bore firearms (shotguns) - Answer (click here)
7. Injury by rubber and plastic bullets - Answer (click here)
8. Industrial nail guns - Answer (click here)
9. Blank cartridge injuries - Answer (click here)
10. Accident, suicide or homicide? - Answer (click here)

Thermal electrical atmospheric pressure and radiation associated deaths

1. Deaths caused by abnormal temperatures - Answer (click here)
2. Deaths caused by electricity - Answer (click here)
3. Death due to radiation - Answer (click here)
4. Diseases due to atmospheric pressure - Answer (click here)

Toxicology and alcohol

1. Toxicology and alcohol - Answer (click here)
2. Toxicology in general - Answer (click here)
3. Carbon-monoxide poisoning - Answer (click here)
4. Alcohol - Answer (click here)
5. Production of alcohol - Answer (click here)
6. Pharmacodynamics of alcohol - Answer (click here)
7. Alcohol-level analysis - Answer (click here)
8. Alcohol: Calculations - Answer (click here)
9. Alcohol: Pharmacological effect - Answer (click here)
10. 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. Paediatric forensic pathology - Answer (click here)
2. Infanticide and concealment of birth - Answer (click here)
3. The battered-baby syndrome (Caffey's syndrome or non-accidental injury syndrome) - Answer (click here)
4. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or Cot death) - Answer (click here)

Sexual offences

1. Rape - Answer (click here)
2. Sexually transmitted diseases - Answer (click here)
3. Interpretation of clinical findings - Answer (click here)
4. Sodomy (buggery; anal intercourse) - Answer (click here)