Forensic Medicine Quiz (Section 1)

Welcome to your Forensic Medicine Quiz (Section 1)

1. 
Assertion and Reason Question

 Assertion (A): The color of lividity in carbon-monoxide poisoning is cherry red.

Reason (R): Because of the binding of carbon to hemoglobin

2. 
Which of the following pairs is not matched correctly:

3. 
Assertion and Reason Question

Assertion (A): Adipocere is formed by the action of bacteria clostridium.

Reason (R): It is facilitated by the hot and dry climate.

4. 
The flexed position of the body was due to:

5. 
Which of the following organs is the last organ to be putrefy?

6. 
A medico-legal report contains

7. 
An autopsy report is written in

8. 
Which of the following are true statements?

(a) Greenish discoloration of the right iliac fossa is the earliest putrefactive change
(b) Rigor mortis first starts in skeletal muscles
(c) Honeycomb liver is seen in Putrefaction
(d) Post-mortem staining in hanging is seen in the face

Codes:

9. 
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) at autopsy may be removed by:

(a) Lumbar Puncture
(b) Withdrawing fluid from cisterna magna
(c) Puncturing the lateral ventricles directly
(d) Passing a plastic catheter in the brain through the nose.

Code:

10. 
Jigai Ritual is associated with

11. 
Match the following:

List-I List-II
(A) Coma (I) Anaemia due to sudden death and excessive hemorrhage from wounds of large blood vessels
(B) Syncope (II) Mechanical obstruction of the air passage
(C) Asphyxia (III) Compression of the brain or its membrane
(D) Sudden Death (IV) Disease of blood vessels especially occlusion of lumen

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

12. 
A person having soot particles in the trachea with high level of CO Hb, the cause of death was:

13. 
The absence of a cadaveric spasm in hand and the presence of a country-made weapon (Katta) at the crime scene are suggestive of:

14. 
In which year was the Coroner’s Act, 1871 replaced in India?

15. 
Beneke’s technique is used during post-mortem to

16. 
Image of body organs can be obtained by which of the following instruments?

17. 
Chronological order of post-mortem changes after death is

18. 
The sequence of post-mortem changes in a cadaver includes

19. 
Arrange the following post-mortem changes in ascending order:

(i) Cooling of the body  (ii) Greenish discoloration of abdomen   (iii)  Rigor mortis  (iv) Marbling

Code:

20. 
The term “Inborn errors of metabolism” was coined by

21. 
“Taches Noire Scleroitiques” is a post-mortem feature seen in

22. 
Area of “contact flattening” is associated with:

23. 
In dead body rigor-mortis occurs after:

24. 
Postmortem staining in a dead body appears on:

25. 
The preservation of the body from decaying using certain chemicals is called