Penal erasure: Permanent erasure/ professional death sentence.

His degree is withdrawn and is not allowed to practice

medicine profession anymore.
84 IPC: Nothing is an offence which is done by a person, who at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is
incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that what he is doing is either wrong or contrary to law.
Lucid interval: The period of consciousness between two bouts of unconsciousness. Seen in EDH.
Pyromania: Irresistible desire to set fire
Faded tatoo is visible: UV light
Statutory rape: It is the crime of having sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of consent. In India, the age of consent
is 18 years (not being his wife).
Cocaine bugs/ formication: Tactile hallucination seen in cocaine.
Poisoning by fish: ethiotoxicosis
False virgin: Female who has experienced sexual intercourse, but retains an intact hymen.
Universal antidote: Activated charcoal
Defence wound: Wounds of the extremities, which result from the immediate and instinctive reaction of the victim to ward
off an attack.
Run amok: Psychic disturbance resulting from continued use or sudden consumption of cannabis, and is characterized by
a peculiar homicidal mania.
Mc Evan sign: Pupils are contracted, but on stimulation of the person, e.g. by pinching or slapping causes them to dilate
with slow return
Lanugo hair: Fine, soft, downy, usually unpigmented hair on the body of the fetus and newborn.
Dipsomania: Compulsion to drink alcoholic bever- ages.
Misconduct: Any conduct of the doctor which might reasonably be regarded as disgraceful or dishonorable as judged by
professional men of good repute and competence.
Last organ for putrefaction: Prostate, uterus, teeth
Pugilistic attitude: Due to heat stiffening, the legs are flexed at the hips and knees, the arms are flexed at the elbows and
held out in front of the body and the fingers are hooked like claws
Cadaverous spasm: A group of voluntary muscles which were at strenuous work during life (at the time of death) goes into
a sudden state of contraction without passing through the stage of primary flaccidity.
Road side poison: Datura
Professional secrecy: The doctor is obliged to maintain the secrets that he comes to know concerning the patient in the
course of a professional relationship, except when he is required by the law to divulge the secrets or when the patient has
consented for its disclosure.
Methods for removal of tattoo: Surgical methods: Dermabrasion, Complete excision and skin grafting Electrolysis Caustic
or corrosive substances
Types of postmortem clots:
Shifting of postmortem lividity: Depends on the position of the body.
Embalming: It is the art and science of preserving the dead body with antiseptics and preservatives to delay putrefaction.
Fabricated wound: It is produced by a person on his own body or by another with his consent.
Types of stab wound: Penetrating wound, Perforating wound
Puppe rule: This rule states that when two fracture lines intersect each other, the second fracture line never crosses the
first one.
Modes of death: Coma, Syncope, Asphyxia
Classical Signs of asphyxia: Cyanosis, Congestion, Petechial hemorrhages
Dry drowning: Water does not enter the lungs due to laryngeal spasm induced by small amounts of water entering the
larynx
Marshal triad: Bruises, abrasions and punctate lacerations with tattooing of the body indicates bomb explosion.
Scalds: It is form of thermal injury which results from application of liquid > 60oC or from steam, and involves only the
superficial layers of skin.
Precepitin test: If host animal (e.g. a rabbit) is inoculated with a human serum protein, the immune system of the rabbit will
normally recognize the protein as foreign and produce antibodies (γ globulins) against it. Harvesting the antibodies
provides an antiserum to the protein (antigen), and when a sample of the antiserum and the antigen are brought in contact,
a precipitin reaction normally occurs.
Marital rape:
Necrophilia: After murder, the sadist may have sexual intercourse with her.
Necrophagia: After murder, the sadist may tear out the genitalia or other organs, may suck or lick the wounds or eat the
flesh of his victim to derive sexual pleasure.
Bestiality: It is sexual intercourse with animal, either vaginal, anal or oral.
Immersion foot: Prolonged exposure of the extremities to cold (non-freezing temperature 5° to 8°C) for many hours
Foeticide: The killing of fetus at any time prior to birth.
Filicide: The deliberate act of killing of a child by the parents.
Still born child: Foetus born after 28th week of pregnancy but did not show any signs of life, after it has been completely
expelled from the vaginal canal.
Kleptomania: Irresistible desire to steal articles of little value.
Frigidity: Inability to initiate or maintain the sexual arousal pattern in female.
Irresistible desire to steal articles of little value: Kleptomania
Ochronosis: Bluish black discoloration of tissues, such as the ear cartilage, sclera, inner canthus. Seen in carbolic acid
poisoning.
Chromodacryorhea: Red color tears
Rotten egg smell: H2S
Bitter almond smell: HCN
Mercurial erethism: Erethism is seen in the chronic phase of the inorganic mercury toxicity.
Sui needle: Seeds of Abrus precatorius are decocted and mixed with dhatura, opium and onion, made into paste with spirit
and water and small sharp pointed spikes are dried in the sun.
Sutherland wrap: A compression bandage should be wrapped firmly (maintaining a pressure of 50–70 mmHg) from the bite
site upwards.To occlude the lymphatic circulation without impeding the arterial or deep venous flow.
Widmok’s formula: Used to estimate blood alcohol level. a = cpr, where, a – the total amount of alcohol (in grams)
absorbed in the body, c– the concentration of alcohol in blood (in g/kg), p– the weight of the person (in kg), r– constant
(0.68 in men and 0.5 in women)
Speedball: The intravenous use of cocaine with heroin or morphine in the same syringe.
Knockout drops: A solution of chloral hydrate and alcohol. ‘Mickey Finn’ is used in DFSA.
Hydrogen sulfide is also called as Sewer gas
Body packer syndrome: Multiple-wrapped packets of illicit drugs (cocaine or heroin) may be ingested or inserted into body
cavities by ‘swallowers,’ to intentionally transport drugs from one country to another.
Bagging: Technique for inhaling hallucinogens by placing it in a bag and then putting it over the face.
Marbling: The blood vessels are marked by the decomposition of hemoglobin to sulphmethemoglobin, which causes a
greenish or reddish-brown staining of the inner walls of the superficial vessels.
Embalming: It is the art and science of preserving the dead body with antiseptics and preservatives to delay putrefaction.
Universally accepted Dental charting method: FDI
Methods of organ dissection: Rokitansky, Virchow method
Most common type of skin incision in autopsy: I shaped incision
Suspended animation: It is condition in which vital signs of life (heart beat and respiration) are not detected by routine
clinical methods, as the functions are interrupted for some time or are reduced to a minimum. Seen in drowning.
Magnan symptom: Seen in cocaine poisoning. It type of tactile hallucination.
Formication: Sensation of tiny insects crawling over the skin. Seen in cocaine poisoning.
Green to black urine: Seen in carbolic acid
Acute carbolic acid poisoning
Earliest methanol poisoning symptoms: Extrapyramidal movements
Methanol poisoning: Fomipizol/ ethanol
Marsh test: Done in acute arsenic poisoning.
Putrefaction organism responsible: Clostridium welchii: green in color as it produces sulfhemoglobin
Fracture in foramen magnum: Ring fracture
Fall from heights
Running over injuring: Avulsion
Feature of examination in age
Somnambulism: Sleep walking.
Phossy jaw is poisoning: Yellow phosphorus
Red phosphorus: Not poisonous
Antidote of opium poisoning: Naloxone sodium
For histopath examination, organs from autopsy are stored in Formalin
For poison analysis: rectified spirit/ hypertonic saline
Choking in fire arm weapon is narrowing of muzzle
Hippys is manifestation of which cardiac poisoning: Aconite
Antidote of:
Paracetamol: N-acetyl cystiene
Cu: De penicillamide
Digoxin: Digibind
CO: High flow O2
Cyanide: Hydroxy cobalamin sodium
Heparin: Protamine
Iron: Deferoxamine
OPC: Atropine + oxalates
Carbamate: Atropine
Snake bite: ASV
False perception of stimulus: Illusion
Misinterpretation for stimulus: Illusion
Poison resembles viper bite: Arbine
Sui needle poisoning: Abrus precatorious
Cherry red PM staining: CO poisoning
Lust murder: Homicide in which the offender stabs, pierces, slashes or otherwise mutilates the sexual organs or areas of
the victim’s body.
Desire to be identified as opposite sex: Transvestism
Frotteurism: It is the act of obtaining sexual arousal and gratification by rubbing of one’s genitals against a non-consenting
person in public places.
First external sign of putrefaction: Greenish discolouration of right illac fossa
Pond fracture refers to: Fracture of infancy
Cafe coronary: Choking
Tache noire de sclerortica: Ocular sign
First internal organ to putrefaction: Larynx and trachea
Last organ to putrefy: Prostate, uterus
Corpus deicti: Body of offence
Cephalic index: Used for determination of race
1st permanent tooth: Central lower incissors
Hasse rule: Fetal length
Ligature mark is horizontal in strangulation
Gettler’s test: Used for determining Cl- levels to differentiate between fresh water and salt water drowning
Tissue bridges seen in laceration
Hinge fracture seen in basilar fracture
Sparrow foot marks: Peculiar facial lacerations due to contact with the shattered windscreen (Windscreen impact)
Motor cyclist fracture: Hinge fracture
Primary blast injury common organ: TM
Kennedy phenomenon: Gun shot
Bullet left in body for long: Souvenir bullets
Tumbling bullets: Bullet rotates end-to-end during its path.
Pink disease: Mercury
Red velvety stomach: Arsenic
Neurotoxic venom or snakes: Cobra, krait
Blisters are absent in postmortem caloricity
Blindness seen in methanol poisoning due to formic acid
Triad of alopecia, neuropathy and diarrhoea: Thallium.
Catamites: Passive partner in a sexual relationship where a young boy and man are involved.
Breslau’s second life test: Stomach bowel test.
Perjury: A witness who after taking oath or making a solemn affirmation, willfully makes a false statement which he knows
or believes to be the false.
Adultery: Voluntary sexual intercourse with any person other than his/her spouse.
Dichotomy: Splitting of commission
Capgras syndrome: Delusion of replacement of significant others. Patient believes that someone close to him has been
replaced by an exact double.
Fregoli’s phenomenon: Delusion of disguise. Strangers are identified as familiar people in the patient’s life.