FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

1. FINGER PRINTS CAN BE TAKEN IN CASES OF

ADVANCED DECOMPOSITION AND
DROWNING BUT NOT IN CASE OF
CORROSION.
2. GENERALLY ALL BONES OSSIFY EARLIER IN
FEMALES SKULL SUTURES OBLITERATE
EARLIER IN MALES.
3. POST MORTEM STAINING IS WELL
DEVELOPED IN 4 HRS AND BECOMES FIXED
IN 6-12 HRS
4. THE MANDIBLE IS NOT PART OF THE
CRANIUM NOR PART OF THE FACIAL
SKELETON.
5. MCNAUGHTEN’S RULE IS CONCERNED WITH
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
6. DELUSION IS A DISORDER OF THOUGHT
7. HALLUCINATION IS FALSE SENSE OF
PERCEPTION WITHOUT ANY EXTERNAL
STIMULUS
8. KLEPTOMANIA IS A TYPE OF IMPULSE
9. THE LAW OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF
AN INSANE PERSON IN INDIA IS BASED UPON
MC NAUGHTEN’S RULE
10. THE MOST COMMON FORM OF
HALLUCINATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA IS
AUDITORY
11. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS DURING
WHICH A PATIENT CAN BE KEPT FOR
OBSERVATION FOR DIAGNOSIS OF MENTAL
ILLNESS IS 30 DAY.
12. RECOMMENDED NUMBER OF
EXAMINATIONS BEFORE CERTIFICATION OF
A MENTALLY ILL PERSON IS 3.
13. THE INDIAN LUNACY ACT WAS
REPLACED BY THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT IN
1987.
14. IN DELIRIUM TREMENS, THE PERSON IS
NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS
ACTS.
15. TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY MEANS
MENTAL ABILITY TO MAKE A VALID WILL.
16. LUCID INTERVAL IS SEEN IN INSANITY,
TESTIMONY IS VALID IN LUCID INTERVAL
17. FATHER OF FORENSIC MEDICINE -
BERNARD SPILLSBARY
● FATHER OF TOXICOLOGY - ORFILA
18. 32 IEA - DYING DECLARATION
19. 45 IEA - EXPERT WITNESS
20. IMPORTANT CRPC :
 ● 416 CRPC - DEATH AFTER DELIVERY
● 174 CRPC - POLICE INQUEST
● 176 CRPC - MAGISTRATE INQUEST
21. IPC SECTIONS :
o 174 IPC - SUB - SUMMON
● 178 IPC - OATH NOT TAKEN
● 191 IPC - DEFINITION OF PERJURY
● 193 IPC - PERJURY PUNISHMENT
● 197 IPC - FALSE CERTIFICATE GIVEN
● 201 IPC - DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE
● IPC - INSANE/UNSOUND COMITTING A
CRIME
● IPC - <7 YEARS NEVER A CRIMINAL
● IPC - 7-12 YEARS SHOULD BE MATURE
ENOUGH TO BE A CRIMINAL
● 85 IPC - INVOULUNTARY INTOXICATED
● 86 IPC - VOLUNTARY INTOXICATION
● 312 TO 316 IPC - CRIMINAL ABORTION
● 297 IPC - NECROPHAGIA/NECROPHILIA
● 375 IPC - DEFINITION OF RAPE
● 377 IPC - UNNATURAL SEX
● MEDICAL DEFINITION OF RAPE - SLIGHT
PENETRATION OF VULVA
● 376 IPC - PUNISHMENT FOR RAPE
● 228 IPC - IDENTITY OF RAPE VICTIM
REVEALED
● 497 IPC - EXTRA MARITAL AFFAIR
● 319 IPC - SIMPLE HURT
● 320 IPC - GRIEVOUS HURT
● 323 IPC - SH WITH NON DANGEROUS
WEAPON
● 324 IPC - SH WITH DANGEROUS WEAPON
● 325 IPC -GH WITH NON DANGEROUS WEAPON
● 326 IPC - GH WITH DANGEROUS WEAPON
● 326A IPC - VITRIOLAGE
● 509 IPC - INSULT TO FEM VIA WORD,
GESTURE, OBSCENE, STARRING > 14 SEC
● 300 IPC - DEFINITION OF MURDER
● 302 IPC - PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
● 304A IPC - DEATH BY RASH/NEGLIGENCE
● 304B IPC - DOWRY DEATH
● 305 & 306 IPC - ABETMENT OF SUICIDE
● 308 IPC - HOMICIDE
● 309 IPC - SUICIDE
● 317 IPC - CHILD ABANDMENT
● 498A IPC - BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME

22. LEGAL TEST / RIGHT OR WRONG TEST IS

KNOWN AS - MC NAUGHTEN RULE
23. MALE IMPOTENCY TOWARDS A
PARTICULAR FEMALE - QUAD
24. FEMALE UNSATISFIED TOWARDS SEX -
FRIGIDITY
25. M.C CAUSE OF STERILE COUPLE - LEAD
POISONING
26. M.C BACTERIA CAUSING RUPTURE OF
HYMEN - DIPTHERIA
27. ABORTIFICANT WHICH INCREASES
UTERINE CONTRACTIONS - ECBOLICS
28. M.C PLANT USED A ABORTION STICK -
CALOTROPIS
29. FATHER OF DNA FINGER PRINTING -
ALLEC JEFFREY
30. RES IPSA LOQUITOR - THING/FACT
WHICK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
31. VICARIOUS LIABILITY - LETTING THE
MASTER/OWNER ANSWER
32. M.C ABRASION DURING ROAD TRAFFIC
ACCIDENT - GRAZED ABRASION
33. COLOR OF CONTUSION BECOMES
NORMAL IN - 2WKS
34. CUT TISSUE / HAIR FOLLICLE IS SEEN IN -
INCISED WOUNDS
35. RACOON SIGN IS SEEN IN - ECTOPIC
BRUISE
36. FIBROBLASTS IN INCISION ARE SEEN BY
- 48 TO 72 HRS
37. COLLAGEN FIBRES IN INCISION ARE
SEEN BY - 3 TO 5 DAYS
38. CRUSHED TISSUE / HAIR FOLLICLE ARE
SEEN IN - LACERATION
39. CUT & CRUSHED TISSUE ARE SEEN IN -
CUT LACERATION
40. M.C TORTURE - FALANGA
41. DEATH IN PELASTIAN INJURY IS DUE TO
- POSITIONAL ASPHYXIA
42. FRACTURE WHERE SKULL SUTURES ARE
SEPARATED - DIASTATIC FRACTURE
43. FIRST ORGAN AFFECTED DURING
PRIMARY BLAST INJURY - TYMPANIC
MEMBRANE
44. MARSHALL TRIAD - PATTERNED
ABRASION + CONTUSION + LACERATION
45. M.C SITE OF FROST BITE - NOSE
46. M.CHARACTERISTIC EVIDENCE OF ANTE
- MORTEM BURNING - CARBON/SOOT
PARTICLE IN TRACHEA
47. M.C ORGAN DAMAGED DURING BLUNT
TRAUMA - SPLEEN
48. M.C ORGAN DAMAGED DURING
PENETRATION TRAUMA - INTESTINE
49. CROCODILE BURN MARK IS SEEN IN -
HIGH VOLTAGE BURN
50. MONOZYGOTIC TWINS ARE
DISTINGUISHED BY FINGER PRINTS, THIS
RULE IS KNOWN AS - QUATLET RULE
51. IDENTIFICATION OF PERSON BY BODY
MARKS & MEASUREMENTS -
ANTHOPOMETRY
52. OLD TATTOOS CAN BE MADE VISIBLE BY
- IR RAYS
53. TYPE OF SKULL IN MONGOLS -
BRACHYCEPLHALIC
54. KIDNEY SHAPED MEDULLA ON CROSS
SECTION OF HAIR IS SEEN IN - NEGROS
55. ACCORDING TO KROGNAN TABLE,
WHICH BONE HAS THE HIGHEST RATE FOR
IDENTIFICATION OF SEX - PELVIS
56. TERITIARY SEXUAL CHARACTER -
PELVIC PRE-AURICULAR SULCUS
57. SHAPE OF OBTURATOR FORAMEN IN
FEMALE - TRIANGULAR
58. ASHELY RULE INDICATES - LENGTH OF
STERNUM
59. PELVIC CHIELOTIC LINE - CONNECTION
BTW SACRUM & PELVIS
60. ESSENCE OF CRIME IS K/AS - CORPUS
DELICTI
61. RULE OF HASSE - ESTIMATES AGE OF
FETUS
62. BEST SUTURE FOR AGE ESTIMATION IN
SKULL - SAGGITAL
63. NIRBHAYA ACT - 16-18 Y/O - CONVITED
FOR RAPE/MURDER
64. METHOD IN WHICH WEIGHT & HEIGHT
OF TOOTH IS CONSIDERED TO KNOW THE
AGE OF INFANT - STACK METHOD
65. TRIPLE BASE SMOKELESS GUN POWDER
CONTAINS -
NITROCELLULASE+NITROGLYCERINE+NITR
OGUANIDINE
66. TATTOOING IN ENTRY WOUND IS
PRESENT IN ALL RANGES EXCEPT - DISTANT
RANGE SHOOTING
67. SINGEING OF HAIR IS PRESENT ONLY IN
THIS RANGE OF ENTRY WOUND - CLOSE
RANGE SHOOTING
68. KENNEDY PHENOMENON - DIFFICULTY
CREATED BY SURGEON FOR POSTMORTEM
IN GUN SHOT WOUND
69. SHAPE OF THE WOUND WHEN A PERSON
GETS CONTACT FROM SHOT GUN WITH A
RANGE OF APPROX 1 METRE - RAT HOLE
SHAPE
70. CLASSICAL FINDING OF ASPHYXIAL
DEATH -
CYANOSIS+CONGESTION+PETECHEA
71. PETECHAE ON FACE DUE TO
OBSTRUCTION OF IJV - TARDIEU SPOTS
72. BURKING IN ASPHYXIA -
CHOKING+GAGGING+TRAUMATIC
ASPHYXIA
73. CAFE CORONARY -
CHOKING+INTOXICATED
74. CAUSE OF DEATH IN WET DROWNING &
DRY DROWNING RESPECTIVELY - CARDIAC
ARREST & LARYNGOSPASM
75. MOST CHARACTERISTIC ANTEMORTEM
DROWNING - CADAVARIC SPASM
76. FINDING SEEN IN BOTH ANTEMORTEM &
POSTMORTEM DROWNING -
WASHERWOMENS HAND
77. M.C CAUSE OF DEATH IN HANGING -
ASPHYXIA+CONGESTION
78. M. CHARACTERISTIC A.M FINDING IN
HANGING - DRIBBLING OF SALIVA
79. SEXUAL ASPHYXIA IS ASSO WITH THESE
PARAPHILLIAS -
MASOCHISM+TRANSVESTISM
80. AMUSET SIGN - CERVICAL FRACTURE IN
JUDICIAL HANGING
81. M.C HOMICIDAL STRANGULATION DONE
BY - TROTTLING
82. HIPPUS SIGN - ALTERNATE
CONTRACTION & DILATATION OF PUPIL IN
ACONITE POISONING
83. BITTER ALMOND SIGN IS DUE TO THIS
POISON - CYANIDE
84. M.C ROAD SIDE POISON - DATURA
85. BEST TEST TO DETECT ARSENIC
POISONING - GUTZEIT SIGN
86. SPECIFIC ANTIDOTE FOR ARSENIC
POISONING - BAL
87. UNIVERSAL ANTIDOTE COMPOSITION -
MGO2+TANNIC ACID+ CHARCOAL (1:1:2)
88. BAL IS GIVEN FOR - ARSENIC+MERCURY
POISONING
89. COPPER POISONING ANTIDOTE -
PENCILLAMINE
90. PRESERVATIVE USED TO STORE SOLID
ORGANS - NACL SATURATED SOLUTION
91. PART OF KIDNEY AFFECTED IN
MERCURY POISONING - PCT NECROSIS
92. SMOKING STOOL SYNDROME IS
ASSOCIATED WITH - PHOSPHORUS
93. M.C CATTLE POISON - ABRUS
PRECATORIUS
94. ACTION OF METHANOL ON RETINA
CAUSES THIS VISION - SNOW FIELD VISION
95. CHARAS IS A TYPE OF EXTRACT MADE
FROM - STEM OF CANNABIS SATIVA
96. HOMOCIDAL TENDENCY DUE TO MARY
JANE - RUM AMOKE
97. COFFEE GROUND VOMITUS IS SEEN DUE
TO - OXALIC ACID
98. BLOATING PAPER APPEARANCE IS DUE
TO - SULPHURIC ACID
99. ANTIDOTE FOR SULPHURIC ACID - MGO2
100. ARROW POISONING - STRYCHNINE

EXTRAS :

o CHRONIC LEAD POISONING IS K/AS -

PLUMBISM/SATURANISM
●
● BURTONIAN LINES - BLUE GUMS DUE TO PBS
●
● DRY BELLY ACHE IS SEEN IN - LEAD
POISONING
●
● MOST CONSISTENT SIGN OF LEAD
POISONING - FACE PALLOR
●
● NDPS ACT - 1985, NALOXONE, NALTREXONE,
NALORPHINE
●
● AFIM IS EXTRACTED FROM - PAPAVER
SOMNIFERUM
●
● HELL DUST IS TAKEN VIA THIS ROUTE -
NASAL(CHASING THE DRAGON)
●
● SPEED BALL - HEROIN+COCAINE
●
● COCAIN BUG IS SEEN WITH CRACK DERIVED
FROM - E.COCCA
●
● M.C METHOD OF PARASUICIDE -
DRUG/POISON
●
● SMELTER FEVER - MALARIA
●
● BISHOPS TRIPOD - LUNG,HEART & BRAIN
STOPPED WORKING
●
● SUPRA - VITAL INTERVAL - BTW SOMATIC
DEATH & CELLULAR DEATH
●
● HOTTA - HUMAN ORGAN & TISSUE
TRANSPLANT ACT (1994)
●
● RESPIRATION & CIRCULATION IS ABSENT
BUT PATIENT ALIVE - SUSPENDED
ANIMATION
●
● RAIL-ROADING PHENOMENON - SEGMENTED
RETINAL VESSELS
●
● ALGOR MORTIS - DEC IN TEMPERATURE
UPTO 24HRS
●
● P.M CALORICITY - INC IN TEMP AFTER 24
HRS
●
● BLUISH PURPLE DISCOLORATION ON
HYPOSTASIS IS DUE TO - BV OF SKIN GETS
DISTENDED IN RETE MUCOSUM OF DERMIS
●
● RIGOR MORTIS - RIGIDITY OF MUSCLES
ALONG WITH STIFFENING & SHORTENING
●
● RIGOR MORTIS IS DISCOVERED BY -
SHAIPORA
●
● FIRST MUSCLE TO UNDERGO RIGOR MORTIS
- MYOCARDIUM
●
● RULE OF 12 IN RIGOR MORTIS - APPEARS
AFTER 12HRS, REMAINS FOR ANOTHER
12HRS & DISAPPEARS IN NEXT 12HRS
●
● ONSET & DURATION OF RIGOR MORTIS IN
ARSENIC POISONING - LATE & LONG
●
● MUSCLES OF THIS PART ARE M.C INVOLVED
IN CADAVERIC SPASM - HAND
●
● FIRST PUTREFICATION CHANGE - GREEN
COLOR ON RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA
●
● COLLIQUATIVE NECROSIS IS SEEN AFTER - 5
TO 10 DAYS
●
● RATE OF DECOMPOSITION GIVEN BY
TAYLOR IS K/AS - CASPER DICTUM
●
● ADIPOCERE IS MOST PROMINENT IN -
BREAST, CHEEKS & ORBIT
●
● SWEET SMELL IS OBTAINED IN THIS TYPE OF
DECOMPOSITION - MUMMIFICATION

● FELLICIDE - INFANT KILLED BY PARENTS

●
● M.IMP CHANGE SEEN IN DEAD BORN FETUS -
MACERATION
●
● OVERLAPPING OF CRANIAL BONE IN IUD IS
K/AS - SPALDING SIGN
●
● BEST TEST FOR LIVE BORN FINDING -
HYDROSTATIC
●
● CAFFEY SYNDROME - BATTERED BABY
SYNDROME
●
● M.C INCISION GIVEN DURING P.M - I
INCISION
●
● M.CHARACTERISTIC FINDING OF P.M IN
STARVATION - DISTENDED GALL BLADDER
●
● PUNCH DRUNK SYNDROME - SDH IN BOXING
●
● M.C CAUSE OF CRIB DEATH/COT DEATH -
SLEEP APNEA
●
● VIRTUAL AUTOPSY -USING RADIOLOGIC
MODALITIES TO FOR AUTOPSY
●
● FINDING IN BRAIN FINGER PRINTING IS K/AS
- MERMER