One Sentence Answer Questions

1) Medical ethics

Medical ethics is concerned with the obligations of the doctors and the hospital to the
patient along with other health professionals and society. The health profession has a
set of ethics, applicable to different groups of health professionals and health-care
institutions.

2) What is dying declaration

Dying Declaration” means a statement written or verbal of relevant facts made by a
person, who is dead. It is the statement of a person who had died explaining the
circumstances of his death.

3) What is dactylography?
Dactylography refers to the scientific study of fingerprints as a method of identification. Is
used as a technique of crime detection by practically every modern law.

4) What is post mortem lividity?

Post mortem lividity or hypostasis is the settling of blood under the influence of gravity
which develops in the early post mortem interval. Lividity generally becomes apparent
within a short period after death and is said to Become fixed between 8 and 12
hours after death.

5) Define delusion.
Delusions are defined as fixed, false beliefs that conflict with reality.

6) Criminal responsibility of insane is described in which section of IPC?

In Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code, a person of an unsound mind

7) What is smothering?
Is deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing.

8) Punishment for murder.

Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life and
shall also be liable to fine, and is defined in IPC 302.

Short Answer Questions

1) Define consent & describe in brief its types.\

Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of
another.

Types of consent include

 a) implied consent,
is consent inferred from a person's actions and the facts and circumstances of a
particular situation.
b) express consent
is one that is clearly and unmistakably stated. It may be given in writing, by speech
(orally), or non-verbally
c) informed consent
consent given by a person who has a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts,
implications, and future consequences of an action.
d) unanimous consent.
general consent, by a group of several parties (e.g., an association) is consent given by
all parties.

2) Magistrates inquest.
It means a legal inquiry. It has been employed in the Cr. PC to mean the inquiry held
u/s 176 by a competent Executive Magistrate into the cause of an unnatural or
suspicious death.

3) Medico-legal importance of age 18 years.

4) Time since death from post mortem lividity.

Lividity generally becomes apparent within a short period after death and is said to
Become fixed between 8 and 12 hours after death.
Post mortem lividity or hypostasis is the settling of blood under the influence of gravity
which develops in the early post mortem interval.

5) Exhumation.
Is to dig ( especially a dead body) out of the earth for investigation purpose.

6) Classify mechanical injuries.

Mechanical trauma is an injury to any portion of the body from a blow, crush, cut, or
penetrating wound.

Mechanical injuries are classified into

1. Abrasions
2. Contusions
3. Lacerations
4. Incised wounds
5. Stab wounds
6 Fractures and dislocation
7 Fire arm wounds

7) Rule of nine.
The rule of nines is a method doctors and emergency medical providers use to easily calculate
the treatment needs for a person who’s been burned.
The rule of nines assigns a percentage that’s either nine or a multiple of nine to determine
how much body surface area is damaged.