FORENSIC MEDICINE

Q AND A

DR. MARIO C. ROSETE

Member of the National Reviewers in the Philippines, Accreditor,

Forensic Specialist, Organizer & Trainer of International &
National Forensic Training-Workshop
1. It denotes knowledge of law in
relation to the practice of
medicine, and it concerns with the
study of the rights, duties, and
obligations of a medical
practitioner with particular
reference to those arising from
doctor-patient relationship.

A.medical knowledge
B.forensic toxicology
C.medical jurisprudence
D.forensic pathology
2. It primarily deals with the
application of medicine to legal
cases, and it has a similar meaning
with forensic medicine.

A. legal medicine
B. autopsy examination
C. anatomy& physiology
D. forensic phatologists
3. Its purpose is the examination of
a patient, and to include bodily
lesions in his reports and testify
before the court or investigative
body, thus giving justice to whom it
is due.

A.medical jurists
B.ordinary physician
C.forensic experts
D.government physician
4. The role of the teeth in human
identification is important because of
the following reasons, EXCEPT:

A. the possibility of two persons to

have the same dentition is quite
remote
B. the importance of dental
characteristics as a means of
identification
C. ante-mortem records are reliable
comparative or exclusionary mode of
identification
D. the human teeth is infallible,
reliable and permanent
5. It is a species of proof, or
probative matter, legally
presented at the trial of an
issue for the purpose of
inducing belief in the minds
of court as to their
contention.

A. autoptic evidence
B. criminal evidence
C. physical evidence
D. medical evidence
6. The oval or round shape of the
skull and the less prominent
jaw and nasal bone are
suggestive of __________.

A. human remains
B. skeletal remains
C. questionable remains
D. animal remains
7. Autopsy examinations shall be
performed in the following,
cases, EXCEPT:

A.required by special laws and

order of competent court
B.upon written request of
police authorities
C.during violent or unnatural
death
D.whenever the nearest kin shall
request in writing
8. It is the termination of life,
and it is the complete cessation
of all the vital functions
without the possibility of
resuscitation.

A. suspended animation
B. death
C. Superficial death
D. clinical death
9. It occurs when there is
irreversible coma, absence of
electrical brain activity and
complete cessation of all the
vital functions without
possibility of resuscitation.

A. cellular death
B. none of these
C. somatic death
D. brain death
 10. It occurs when there is a
continuous and persistent
cessation of heart action and
respiration.

A. molecular death
B. cardio-respiratory death
C. artificial death
D. clinical death
 11. This is the state of the
body in which there is complete,
persistent and continuous
cessation of the vital function
of the brain, heart and lungs
that maintain life and health.

A. cessation of circulation
B. apparent death
C. somatic death
D. cessation of respiration
12. This condition is not really
death, but merely a transient
loss of consciousness or
temporary cessation of the
vital functions of the body.

A. physical death
B. apparent death
C. brain death
D. clinical death
 13. It is the rise of temperature
of the body after death, due to
rapid and early putrefactive
changes or some internal changes,
and usually observed in the first
two hours of death.

A. anti-mortem caloricy
B. anti-mortem lividity
C. post-mortem caloricity
D. post-mortem lividity
14. After death, the body loses
slowly its temperature by
evaporation of by conduction to
the surrounding atmosphere, and
it is one of the prominent
signs and indications of death.

A. livor mortis
B. algor mortis
C. instantenous rigor
D. rigor mortis
 15. After death, it will be
developed on areas of the skin,
especially on the most dependent
portions on account of the
gravitation of the blood.

A. cadaveric rigidity
B. cadaveric discoloration
C. livid discoloration
D. changes of the body
16. Three to six hours after death, the
muscles gradually stiffen, and it
usually starts at the muscles of the
neck and lower jaw and spread
downwards to the chest, abdomen, arm,
and lower limbs, and this is
considered as natural phenomenon, and
termed as:

A.cadaveric spasm
B.rigor mortis
C.livor mortis
D.algor mortis
17. This is due to extreme
nervous system injury to the
chest, and this also to the
fact that the last voluntary
contraction of the muscle
during life does not stop
after death.

A. lividity
B. putrefaction
C. flaccidity
D. cadaveric spasm
18.Ordinarily, the color of
post-mortem hypostatis is
dull-red, pink or purplish in
color, but in death due to
__________, it is bright pink
in color.

A. exposed to heat
B. asphyxia
C. exposed to cold
D. carbon monoxide
 19. It is the breaking down of
complex protein into simpler
components associated with the
evolution of foul smelling gases
and accompanied by the change of
color of the body.

A. none of these
B. putrefaction
C. flaccidity of the muscle
D. decomposition
20. The loss of tone of blood
vessels cause the blood to be
under the influence of gravity,
capillaries may be distended with
blood that will coalesce with one
another until the whole area
becomes dull-red or purplish in
color and this is known as:

A. livor mortis
B. algor mortis
C. instantenous rigor
D. rigor mortis
21. In entomology of the cadaver,
the mere facts that there are
maggots in the cadaver, one can
conclude that death has
occurred for more than how many
hours.

A. twelve hours
B. twenty-four hours
C. thirty-four hours
D. fourty-eighthours
22. The presence of live flea
recovered from the clothing
of the victim, it is
conclusive that the body has
been in water for a period
less than how many hours.

A. three to six hours

B. thirty-four hours
C. fouty-eight hours
D. twenty-four hours
23.It includes the collection of the
physical evidences that may lead
to the identity of the
perpetrator, the manner the
criminal act was executed, and
such other things that may be
useful in the prosecution of the
case.

A.forensic investigation
B.criminal investigation
C.autopsy examination
D.crime scene investigation
24. It is a comprehensive study
of a dead body, performed by a
trained physician employing
recognized dissection procedure
and techniques, and it includes
removal of tissues for further
examination.

A. medical examination
B. autopsy examination
C. forensic examination
D. legal examination
 25. The separation of the edges
especially in deep wound may be
due to the following, EXCEPT:

A. mechanical stretching
B. loss of tissue
C. retraction of the edges
D. gaping of wound
26. This is a condition in which
the supply of the oxygen to
the blood or to tissues or to
both has reduced below what is
required by human being.

A. death from syncope

B. death from asphyxia
C. death from coma
D. death from poison
27. It is the general term applied
to all forms of violent death
which results primarily from the
interference with the process of
respiration or the condition in
which the supply of oxygen to the
blood or to the tissue or both has
been reduced below normal level.

A. Asphyxia
B. comatose
C. Anoxemia
D. heart failure
28. It is damage or harm caused
to the structure or function
of the body caused by an
outside agent or force, which
may be physical or chemical,
and either by accident and/or,
intentional.

A. Wound
B. trauma
C. physical injuries
D. injuries
29. It is the sum total of
all reaction of tissue or
organ to trauma.

A.overall reactions
B.vital indication
C.vital reactions
D.body reaction
30. It is a wound which is
caused immediately after
infliction or shortly
thereafter that is capable
of causing death on the part
of the victim.

A. fatal wound
B. mortal wound
C. serious injuries
D. non-fatal wound
31. It is the dissolution of the
natural continuity of any
tissues of the living body, and
it is the disruption of the
anatomic energy of a tissue of
the body.

A. injury B. trauma
C. wound
D. wounding
32. It is a type of the
wound that involves only
the outer layers of the
skin.

A. superficial
B. closed wound
C. open wound
D. artificial
33. Wound in which the
wounding agent enters the
body but did not come out or
the mere piercing of a solid
organ or tissue of the body.

A.entering
B.Piercing
C.Penetrating
D.wounding
34. When the wounding agent
produces communication
between the inner and outer
portion of the hollow
organs.

A.Perforated
B.perforating
C.Perforation
D.thru-and-thru
35. It is a wound which is
the result of a person’s
instinctive reaction of
self-protection.

A.defense wound
B.special wounds
C.special injury
D.defense injury
36. It is a wound in which
the nature and shape of an
object or instrument and
which infers the object or
instrument causing it.

A.defense wound
B.patterned wound
C.self-inflicted wound
D.wounds never heals
37. It is a wound produced
oneself, and as
distinguished from suicide,
the person has no intention
to end his life.

A.All by myself wound

B.patterned wound
C.defense wound
D.self-inflicted wound
38. It is a wound wherein
there is no breach of
continuity of the skin or
mucous membrane.

A. special wounds
B. open wound
C. closed wound
D. ordinary wound
39. This is circumscribed
extravasations of the blood in the
subcutaneous tissue or underneath
the mucous membrane, and it is due
to the increase intra-capillary
pressure of the vessel.

A.Petichiae
B.hematoma
C.Contusion
D.Abrasions
40. It is the effusion of blood
into the tissues underneath the
skin on account of the rupture
of the blood vessels as a
result of the application of
blunt force or violence.

A. contusion
B. hematoma
C. Petichiae
D. punctured wound
41. It is the extravasations
or effusion of blood in a
newly formed cavity
underneath the skin, thus
causing the outer layer of
the skin to elevate.

A. hematoma
B. contusion
C. open wound
D. petichiae
 42. It is a partial or
complete disruption in the
continuity of a muscular or
ligamentous support of a
joint.

A.Subluxation
B.Fracture
C.Dislocation
D.sprain
 43. It is dissolution of the
continuity of bone resulting
from violence, external
stimuli or some other forms
of existing pathology.

A.Dislocation
B.Fracture
C.Strain
D.subluxation
 44. The body becomes flattened
over areas that are in contact
with surface it rest, and it is
being called as what?

A.lost of elasticity
B.anti-morten flattening
C.flaccidity of the muscle
D.post-mortem flattening
 45. It is the jarring or
stunning of the brain
characterized by more or less
complete suspension of its
functions.

A.internal hemorrhage
B.coup injury
C.concussion cerebri
D.contre-coup injury
46.It is an injury characterized
by the removal of the
superficial epithelial layer of
the skin caused by contact and
accompanied by sliding friction
against a hard rough surface.

A. rubbing wound
B. abrasion
C. removal of dermis
D. friction injury
47. This is produced by a sharp-
edged-cutting or sharp-linear
edge of the instrument, like a
knife, razor, metal sheet,
etc.

A.chopped wound
B.incised wound
C.shacked wound
D.lacerated wound
48. It is produced by the
penetration of a sharp-
pointed and sharp edge
instrument, i.e., knife,
saber, dagger, and scissors.

A.penetrating wound
B.puncture wound
C.open wound
D.stabbed wound
49. It is a thrust of a sharp
pointed instrument; the
external injury is small
but the depth is to a
certain degree.

A.perforating wound
B.gaping wound
C.punctured wound
D.closed wound
50. This may be produced by
a semi-sharp instrument
which causes irregular
edges on the wound, like
hatchet and choppers.

A. gaping B.
wounding
C. Tearing
D. rectracting
51. It is the extravasations
or loss of blood from the
circulation brought about
by wounds in the cardio-
vascular system.

A. internal bleeding
B. hemorrhage
C. blood extravasations D.
blood effusions
52. It is the appearance,
growth and development of
micro-organisms at the
site of injury.

A. infection
B. tetanis
C. poisons D.
bacteria
53. This is a condition in which
foreign matters are introduced
in the blood stream causing
sudden block to the blood flow
in the finer arterioles and
capillaries.

A. shock B. asphyxia
C. Hemorrhage
D. embolism
 54. It is a condition of a
female who has not experienced
sexual intercourse, and whose
organs have not been altered by
carnal connection.

A. moral virginity
B. physical virginity
C. virtuous female
D. virginity
 55. The composition of the
wall of vagina is smooth
muscle and __________.

A.prominent rugosities
B.fibro elastic tissue
C.lubricating secretion
D.labia minora and majora
 56. As a general rule, and a
guide in the conduct of
medico-legal examination,
these are the characteristics
of the vaginal canal of a
virgin, EXCEPT.

A. tight B.
sharp
C. Prominent
D. lax
 57. In the examination of
victim, it is given too much
attention in the determination of
virginity.

A. hymen
B. vaginal canal
C. fourchette D.
labias
 58. It is the laceration or
rupture of the hymen as a
result of sexual intercourse.

A. laceration B.
distention
C. sexual intercourse
D. defloration
 59. Almost simultaneous death of
both partners during sexual
intercourse may be due to the
performance of the sexual act in an
enclosed place with __________

A. carbon monoxide B.
asphyxiate gas
C. A and B
D. none of these
 60. This term refers to a
condition of a woman who permits
any form of sexual liberties as
long as they abstain from
rupturing their hymen by sexual
act.

A. false virginity
B. demi-virginity
C. physical virginity D.
semi-virginity
61. It reveals a gap in the time
line, and leads investigators to
the conclusion that the body was
moved.

A. insect colonization B.
insect activities
C. insect evidence
D. insect presence
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