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Sexual abnormalities
1. Heterosexual
2. Homosexual
a. Over
b. Latent
3. Tribalism
4. Infanto sexual
5. Phidophile
6. Besto sexual desire for animals; bestiality (zoophilia)
7. Cluto sexual
8. Gerentophilia sexual desire with elder person
9. Necrophilia sexual desire with corpse
10. Incest blood relation
11. Satyriasists
12. Nymphomaniac
13. Sexual anexthesia
14. Dyspareunia
15. Vaginismus
16. Old age
17. Oralism
18. Fellatio (irrumation)
19. Cunnilingus
20. Anilism (anillingus)
21. Sado-masochism
22. Flagellation
23. Sadism (active algo lagnia)
24. Cannibalism
25. Love bites
26. Necro sadism or lust murder
27. Masochism (passive algo lagnia)
Fetishism the real or fantasized presence of an object or bodily parts is necessary for sexual
gratification
Kinds of fetishes
1. Anatomic
2. Clothing
3. Necrophilic
4. Osphesiophilia
a. Urolagnia
b. Coprolagnia
c. Mysophilia
5. Pygnealionism
6. Manikinism
7. Narcism
8. Negative fetish
9. Saboteur fetish
10. Incendiarism
11. Vampirism
12. Sodomy
13. Uranism
14. Frottage
15. Partialism
16. Voyeurism
17. Mixoscopia (scotophilia)
18. Troilism (mnage a tois)
19. Pluralism
20. Coprolalia
21. Indecent exposure
22. Transvestism
23. Transexualism
24. Intersesuality
Medico-legal aspects of injuries:
Due to heat, cold, and electricity
Injury due to heat
- Any excess of temperature over 50 degrees centigrade can cause damage to living
tissue.
1. Dry heat burn
2. Moist heat scalding
3. Erythema and blistering is caused and there is fluid
Burns
1. Dry burns are classified by severity and extent:
a. First degree erythema and blistering (vesiculation)
b. Second degree burning of the whole thickness of the epidermis and exposure of the
dermis.
c. Third degree destruction down to the dermal tissues, sometimes with carbonization
and exposure of muscles and bones.
Estimating the extent of injury
- Rule of nine is used to calculate the approximate extent on the body surface.
- The area of burning may be more dangerous to life than depth.
- If the area exceeds 50% the prognosis is very poor.
- Old people may die only with 20% burns.
Causes of death in burns
1. Rapid death
- Actual destructive effects of heat
Asphyxia
Shock due to pain
Inhalation of hot gas burning the interior of air passage
Carbon monoxide toxicity and other noxious gas
2. Delayed death
- Dehydration
- Electrolyte imbalance
- Renal failure
- Toxemia from substances absorbed from the burned area
Infection
g. Epilepsy - Status epilepticus - a dangerous condition in which epileptic seizures follow one
another without recovery of consciousness between them.
Medico legal aspects of pregnancy and abortion
Pregnancy 270-280 days
- Product of conception
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Claim for breach of promise or charge of seduction
Alleged criminal abortion
Civil disputes
Excused attendance in court
Charges of infanticide
Legal termination of pregnancy
1. Performed by medical practitioner
2. Carried out in health service hospital
3. Two doctors must examine the woman
4. Termination must be notified to medical officers of the appropriate government department
5. Circumstances/reason for termination of pregnancy
a. Endanger life of a woman
b. Endanger physical health
Abortion willful killing of the fetus or violent expulsion of the fetus from the natural womb and
which results to the death of the fetus. Maybe natural, therapeutic or clinical.
Methods:
-drugs and toxins
-instrumentation cauterization
-general violence
-local interference
-syringe aspiration
Causes of abortion
-death of fetus congenital abnormality, poisoning, diseases
-abnormality of the uterus
-emotional condition
-abortificient drugs
-trauma direct or indirect
-hormonal deficiency
-acute specific fever and high temperature
Fatal effects of illegal abortion
1. Hemorrhage from local genital trauma
2. Sepsis
3. Shock
4. Air embolism
5. Complications such as leg vein or pelvic vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism,
disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, renal failure.
Death and injury in infants
Still births child is more than 28 weeks, gestational age, which after being completely expelled
from the mother did not breathe or show any signs of life.
Causes
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Prematurity
Fetal hypoxia
Placental insufficiency
Intra urine infection
Congenital defects