FORENSIC MEDICINE
FORENSIC MEDICINE SYLLABUS
(The syllabus may change from time to time. Please check with the relevant Public Service Commission websites for any changes in the syllabus)
1. Law in relation to medical man.
2. Legal procedure. Inquest, different types of court, Powers of different Courts, Medico Legal reports, Dying declaration, Dying deposition, Medical witness and his examination in Courts. Professional secrets, Proveleged Communication, Professional Negligence, Contributory negligency.
3. Medico Legal autopsy of a dead body, a decomposed and mutilated body, or its fragments, skeleton and bones, Exbumation of a dead body and rules regarding it, Aims and objects of Medico Legal autopsy.
4. Identification of the living and dead, determination of race, sex, age and their Medico Legal aspects, Dactylograph, Anthropometry, features, Deformities, Scars, Tattoo marks, Occupation marks, Skeleton remains & inter sex.
5. Examination of blood stains, seminal stains, hairs and fibers.
6. Death and postmortem change, Modes of death, Manner of death, causes of sudden death, signs of death, time of death, Presumption of death, Moment of death & Brain death.
7. Violent Asphysial death, Hanging, Strangulation, Throtlling, Suffocation, Drowning including dry drowning, Traumatic Asphysia, Cafe coranary.
8. Effects of Cold, Heat, Electric current, Radiation & Lightening, Starvation death. Burns. 9. Mechanical injuries and their medico Legal aspects in relation to accident, suicide and homicide. Distinction between injuries caused during life and after death. Medicolegal examination on an injured persons. Regional inquires. Histochemical methods of determination of the age of an injury.
10. Impotance and sterility, Artificial Insemination.
11. Virginity, signs of pregnancy and delivery and their Medicolegal importance.
12. Sexual offences, Rape including the recent changes in the law of rape, Unnatural offences and various sexual perversions.
13. Abortion including criminal abortion and law in relation to criminal abortion, duty of Physician when called on to treat a case of criminal miscarriage. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.
14. Infanticide.
15. Forensic Psychiatry, medicolegal aspects of insanity as regards civil and criminal responsibility and rules regarding the admission and treatment of insane person into Psychiatric Hospitals according to Mental Health Act of India. Difference between true and feigned insanity.
16. (a) Forensic Toxicology, General considerations, regarding the sale of poisons with reference to various Acts and Statues in India and the dangerous Drugs Act, classification of poisons, Action of poisons and its modification, Diagnosis, Treatment postmortem appearance and analysis poisons, Rules regarding the preservation and transmission of viscera and other suspected articles for chemical analysis in cases of suspected poisoning, duty of the physicians in cases of suspected poisoning the preservation and transmission of viscer and other suspected articles for chemical analysis in cases of suspected poisoning, duty of the physician in cases of suspected poisoning.
(b) Specific study of the poisons commonly seen in India as regards their signs, symptoms, treatment, postmortem appearance and medico legal importance including following:-
i) Corrosive poisons
ii) Non-Metallic poisons
iii) Insecticides and weed-killers
iv) Metallic poisons
v) Organic Irritant poisons
vi) Somniferous Poisons
vii) Inebriant poisons
viii) Deliriant poisons
ix) Drug addiction, Drug dependence & management of Drug addict.
x) Food poisons
xi) Spinal poisons
xii) Cardiac poisons
xiii) Asphyxiates
xiv) Hydro cynic Acid
1. Law in relation to medical man.
2. Legal procedure. Inquest, different types of court, Powers of different Courts, Medico Legal reports, Dying declaration, Dying deposition, Medical witness and his examination in Courts. Professional secrets, Proveleged Communication, Professional Negligence, Contributory negligency.
3. Medico Legal autopsy of a dead body, a decomposed and mutilated body, or its fragments, skeleton and bones, Exbumation of a dead body and rules regarding it, Aims and objects of Medico Legal autopsy.
4. Identification of the living and dead, determination of race, sex, age and their Medico Legal aspects, Dactylograph, Anthropometry, features, Deformities, Scars, Tattoo marks, Occupation marks, Skeleton remains & inter sex.
5. Examination of blood stains, seminal stains, hairs and fibers.
6. Death and postmortem change, Modes of death, Manner of death, causes of sudden death, signs of death, time of death, Presumption of death, Moment of death & Brain death.
7. Violent Asphysial death, Hanging, Strangulation, Throtlling, Suffocation, Drowning including dry drowning, Traumatic Asphysia, Cafe coranary.
8. Effects of Cold, Heat, Electric current, Radiation & Lightening, Starvation death. Burns. 9. Mechanical injuries and their medico Legal aspects in relation to accident, suicide and homicide. Distinction between injuries caused during life and after death. Medicolegal examination on an injured persons. Regional inquires. Histochemical methods of determination of the age of an injury.
10. Impotance and sterility, Artificial Insemination.
11. Virginity, signs of pregnancy and delivery and their Medicolegal importance.
12. Sexual offences, Rape including the recent changes in the law of rape, Unnatural offences and various sexual perversions.
13. Abortion including criminal abortion and law in relation to criminal abortion, duty of Physician when called on to treat a case of criminal miscarriage. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.
14. Infanticide.
15. Forensic Psychiatry, medicolegal aspects of insanity as regards civil and criminal responsibility and rules regarding the admission and treatment of insane person into Psychiatric Hospitals according to Mental Health Act of India. Difference between true and feigned insanity.
16. (a) Forensic Toxicology, General considerations, regarding the sale of poisons with reference to various Acts and Statues in India and the dangerous Drugs Act, classification of poisons, Action of poisons and its modification, Diagnosis, Treatment postmortem appearance and analysis poisons, Rules regarding the preservation and transmission of viscera and other suspected articles for chemical analysis in cases of suspected poisoning, duty of the physicians in cases of suspected poisoning the preservation and transmission of viscer and other suspected articles for chemical analysis in cases of suspected poisoning, duty of the physician in cases of suspected poisoning.
(b) Specific study of the poisons commonly seen in India as regards their signs, symptoms, treatment, postmortem appearance and medico legal importance including following:-
i) Corrosive poisons
ii) Non-Metallic poisons
iii) Insecticides and weed-killers
iv) Metallic poisons
v) Organic Irritant poisons
vi) Somniferous Poisons
vii) Inebriant poisons
viii) Deliriant poisons
ix) Drug addiction, Drug dependence & management of Drug addict.
x) Food poisons
xi) Spinal poisons
xii) Cardiac poisons
xiii) Asphyxiates
xiv) Hydro cynic Acid
FORENSIC MEDICINE ANSWER KEYS
1) Forensic Medicine is defined as:
A) That deals with medical aspect of Law
B) That deals with legal aspect of practice of medicine
C) That deals with negligence cases
D) That deals with duties of doctors and medical ethics
Ans: 1
2) Police inquest files under:
A) S.172 Cr.P.C.
B) S.174 Cr.P.C.
C) S.176 Cr.P.C.
D) S.179 Cr.P.C.
Ans: 2
3) Death sentence is passed by which of the following:
A) Chief Judicial Magistrate
B) Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
C) First Class Magistrate
D) District and Session Judge
Ans: 4
4) Conduct money fee is offered to a witness in:
A) Criminal Cases
B) Cognizable offence
C) Civil Cases
D) Murder Cases
Ans: 3
5) Following are example of documentary evidence except:
A) Medical Certificate
B) Medico legal reports
C) In famous conduct
D) Dying deposition
Ans: 3
6) Leading questions are allowed in:
A) Cross-examination
B) Examination in chief
C) Re-examination
D) Dying declaration
Ans: 1
7) Magistrate Inquest is not needed in:
A) Exhumation
B) Murder
C) Police custody death
D) Dowry death
Ans: 2
8) When a doctor issues a false medical certificate then he is liable under section I.P.C.:
A) 87
B) 88
C) 197
D) 190
Ans: 3
9) Hostile witness is:
A) Refuses to answer
B) Willfully gives false evidence
C) Give truth evidence
D) Threatens the doctor
Ans: 2
10) A witness who after taking oath willfully, give a statement which he knows to be false is punished under section:
A) 93 IPC
B) 193 IPC
C) 293 IPC
D) 393 IPC
Ans: 2
11) Following are functions of state medical council except:
A) Maintain medical register
B) Disciplinary control
C) Warning notice
D) Maintain standard of medical college
Ans: 4
12) The Indian Medical Council act was established in year:
A) 1946
B) 1956
C) 1970
D) 1971
Ans: 2
13) Professional death sentence is given by:
A) District and Session Judge
B) Medical Council of India
C) Chief Judicial Magistrate
D) State Medical Council
Ans: 4
14) According to gazette of India April 6, 2002 M.C.I. minimum period for which a doctor should preserve his patient
record is:
A) 01 year
B) 03 year
C) 05 year
D) 10 year
Ans: 2
15) Consent is required for:
A) Medico legal autopsy
B) Pathological autopsy
C) Exhumation
D) Mass Immunization
Ans: 2
16) As per MCI guideline following are unethical acts except:
A) Advertising
B) Charging fees from patient
C) Rebates
D) Euthanasia
Ans: 2
17) Giving poisonous medicine carelessly, the doctrine applicable is:
A) Contributory negligence
B) Res judicatory
C) Res Ipsa loquitor
D) Civil negligence
Ans: 3
18) Corpus delicti means:
A) Race
B) Cephalic index
C) Body of offence
D) Body of accuse
Ans: 3
19) In dolico-cephalic, cephalic index is between:
A) 60-70
B) 70-75
C) 75-80
D) 80-85
Ans: 2
20) In Klinefelters syndrome sex chromosome pattern is:
A) XXX
B) XXY
C) XO
D) XY
Ans: 2
21) First permanent teeth that erupt is:
A) Central incisor
B) Lateral incisor
C) First bicuspid
D) First molar
Ans: 4
22) Age of marriage for girls is:
A) 16 years
B) 18 years
C) 20 years
D) 21 years
Ans: 2
23) For a 18 years old girl, site for X-ray to determine her age is:
A) Elbow
B) Wrist
C) Clavicle
D) Ankle joint
Ans: 2
24) For a 21 year male, site for X-ray to determine his age is:
A) Elbow
B) Wrist
C) Clavicle
D) Knee joint
Ans: 3
25) At what age Xiphoid unites with body of sternum:
A) 14 to 25 years
B) About 30 years
C) About 40 years
D) About 50 years
Ans: 3
26) The coronal, Sagittal and lambdoid sutures start to close on their inner site at about the age of:
A) 15 years
B) 25 years
C) 35 years
D) 45 years
Ans: 2
27) At what age a rape victim can give consent for examination:
A) 12 years
B) 16 years
C) 18 years
D) 15 years
Ans: 1
28) Sex can be recognized in fetus at the age of:
A) 2 Months
B) 3 Months
C) 4 Months
D) 6 Months
Ans: 3
29) Preservative use for chemical analysis in suspected poisoning death case is:
A) 10% formalin
B) 40% formalin
C) Saturated solution of Sodium chloride
D) Saturated solution of Sodium Fluoride
Ans: 3
30) Exhumation order can be given by:
A) Director general of Police
B) Superintendent of police
C) Executive magistrate
D) Inspector general of police
Ans: 3
A) That deals with medical aspect of Law
B) That deals with legal aspect of practice of medicine
C) That deals with negligence cases
D) That deals with duties of doctors and medical ethics
Ans: 1
2) Police inquest files under:
A) S.172 Cr.P.C.
B) S.174 Cr.P.C.
C) S.176 Cr.P.C.
D) S.179 Cr.P.C.
Ans: 2
3) Death sentence is passed by which of the following:
A) Chief Judicial Magistrate
B) Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
C) First Class Magistrate
D) District and Session Judge
Ans: 4
4) Conduct money fee is offered to a witness in:
A) Criminal Cases
B) Cognizable offence
C) Civil Cases
D) Murder Cases
Ans: 3
5) Following are example of documentary evidence except:
A) Medical Certificate
B) Medico legal reports
C) In famous conduct
D) Dying deposition
Ans: 3
6) Leading questions are allowed in:
A) Cross-examination
B) Examination in chief
C) Re-examination
D) Dying declaration
Ans: 1
7) Magistrate Inquest is not needed in:
A) Exhumation
B) Murder
C) Police custody death
D) Dowry death
Ans: 2
8) When a doctor issues a false medical certificate then he is liable under section I.P.C.:
A) 87
B) 88
C) 197
D) 190
Ans: 3
9) Hostile witness is:
A) Refuses to answer
B) Willfully gives false evidence
C) Give truth evidence
D) Threatens the doctor
Ans: 2
10) A witness who after taking oath willfully, give a statement which he knows to be false is punished under section:
A) 93 IPC
B) 193 IPC
C) 293 IPC
D) 393 IPC
Ans: 2
11) Following are functions of state medical council except:
A) Maintain medical register
B) Disciplinary control
C) Warning notice
D) Maintain standard of medical college
Ans: 4
12) The Indian Medical Council act was established in year:
A) 1946
B) 1956
C) 1970
D) 1971
Ans: 2
13) Professional death sentence is given by:
A) District and Session Judge
B) Medical Council of India
C) Chief Judicial Magistrate
D) State Medical Council
Ans: 4
14) According to gazette of India April 6, 2002 M.C.I. minimum period for which a doctor should preserve his patient
record is:
A) 01 year
B) 03 year
C) 05 year
D) 10 year
Ans: 2
15) Consent is required for:
A) Medico legal autopsy
B) Pathological autopsy
C) Exhumation
D) Mass Immunization
Ans: 2
16) As per MCI guideline following are unethical acts except:
A) Advertising
B) Charging fees from patient
C) Rebates
D) Euthanasia
Ans: 2
17) Giving poisonous medicine carelessly, the doctrine applicable is:
A) Contributory negligence
B) Res judicatory
C) Res Ipsa loquitor
D) Civil negligence
Ans: 3
18) Corpus delicti means:
A) Race
B) Cephalic index
C) Body of offence
D) Body of accuse
Ans: 3
19) In dolico-cephalic, cephalic index is between:
A) 60-70
B) 70-75
C) 75-80
D) 80-85
Ans: 2
20) In Klinefelters syndrome sex chromosome pattern is:
A) XXX
B) XXY
C) XO
D) XY
Ans: 2
21) First permanent teeth that erupt is:
A) Central incisor
B) Lateral incisor
C) First bicuspid
D) First molar
Ans: 4
22) Age of marriage for girls is:
A) 16 years
B) 18 years
C) 20 years
D) 21 years
Ans: 2
23) For a 18 years old girl, site for X-ray to determine her age is:
A) Elbow
B) Wrist
C) Clavicle
D) Ankle joint
Ans: 2
24) For a 21 year male, site for X-ray to determine his age is:
A) Elbow
B) Wrist
C) Clavicle
D) Knee joint
Ans: 3
25) At what age Xiphoid unites with body of sternum:
A) 14 to 25 years
B) About 30 years
C) About 40 years
D) About 50 years
Ans: 3
26) The coronal, Sagittal and lambdoid sutures start to close on their inner site at about the age of:
A) 15 years
B) 25 years
C) 35 years
D) 45 years
Ans: 2
27) At what age a rape victim can give consent for examination:
A) 12 years
B) 16 years
C) 18 years
D) 15 years
Ans: 1
28) Sex can be recognized in fetus at the age of:
A) 2 Months
B) 3 Months
C) 4 Months
D) 6 Months
Ans: 3
29) Preservative use for chemical analysis in suspected poisoning death case is:
A) 10% formalin
B) 40% formalin
C) Saturated solution of Sodium chloride
D) Saturated solution of Sodium Fluoride
Ans: 3
30) Exhumation order can be given by:
A) Director general of Police
B) Superintendent of police
C) Executive magistrate
D) Inspector general of police
Ans: 3
31) Last structure to be autopsied in hanging death:
A) Heart
B) Thorax
C) Abdomen
D) Neck
Ans: 4
32) Which is surest sign of death:
A) Cessation of respiration
B) Cessation of circulation
C) Rigor mortis
D) Cooling of the body
Ans: 3
33) The first external sign of putrefaction in body over skin region develop at the site of:
A) Face
B) Neck
C) Chest
D) Abdomen
Ans: 4
34) When a virgin girl dies the last organ to putrefy is:
A) Heart
B) Lungs
C) Uterus
D) Kidney
Ans: 3
35) Under Indian evidence act a person is presumed to be alive, if there is nothing to suggest the probability of death within:
A) 20 years
B) 30 years
C) 40 years
D) 50 years
Ans: 2
36) Rigor mortis not seen in:
A) Fetus less than 06 months
B) Fetus 10 months
C) Emaciated body
D) 90 year old person
Ans: 1
37) Injury is define under section:
A) 40 IPC
B) 42 IPC
C) 44 IPC
D) 46 IPC
Ans: 3
38) Most common type of abrasion is:
A) Scratches
B) Grazes
C) Pressure
D) Impact
Ans: 2
39) The HARA KIRI unusual type of wound is:
A) Accidental
B) Homicidal
C) Suicidal
D) Explosion
Ans: 3
40) Choking is characteristic of:
A) Shotgun
B) Rifle
C) Revolver
D) Pistol
Ans: 1
41) Following are example of rifled weapons except:
A) Revolver
B) Pistol
C) Machine gun
D) Breech loader gun
Ans: 4
42) What is probable distance of the fire arm if diameter of the spread of shot on the skin is 10 inches:
A) 5 meter
B) 9 meter
C) 15 meter
D) 20 meter
Ans: 2
43) Whiplash injury is associated with:
A) Spinal cord
B) Whiplash intestine
C) Chest injury
D) Abdomen injury
Ans: 1
44) Dowry death is under which section of IPC:
A) 304 A
B) 304 B
C) 304
D) 306
Ans: 2
45) Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by sharp weapon come under section IPC:
A) 324
B) 325
C) 326
D) 323
Ans: 3
46) Lucid interval is seen in:
A) Extra Dural hemorrhage
B) Intraventricular hemorrhage
C) Sub arachnoid hemorrhage
D) Intra cranial hemorrhage
Ans: 1
47) A 16 year girl found dead in burning hut with 100% burn the surest sign of antemortem burn is:
A) Soot particle in mouth
B) Soot in larynx
C) Soot particle in stomach
D) Soot particle in middle ear
Ans: 2
48) Filigree burns are characteristic of:
A) Flame burn
B) Scald
C) Lightning
D) Electrical burn
Ans: 3
49) Blister formation in burn is classified as:
A) First degree
B) Second degree
C) Third degree
D) Fourth degree
Ans: 2
50) Commonest cause of death in hanging is:
A) Asphyxia
B) Venous congestion
C) Asphyxia & Venous congestion
D) Fracture of Cervical vertebrae
Ans: 3
51) Which is sure sign of ante mortem hanging:
A) Sub conjunctiva hemorrhage
B) Neck elongated
C) Secretion of saliva from mouth angle
D) Ligature mark around the neck
Ans: 3
52) Which of the following is example of homicidal hanging:
A) Lynching
B) Bansdola
C) Garroting
D) Mugging
Ans: 1
53) Burking is an example of:
A) Strangulation & hanging
B) Smothering & Traumatic asphyxia
C) Choking & smothering
D) Homicidal strangulation
Ans: 2
54) Whenever large crowd gather in an enclosed place and stamped upon then common cause of death is:
A) Overlaying
B) Traumatic asphyxia
C) Choking
D) Smothering
Ans: 2
55) Paltauf’s hemorrhage found in:
A) Heart
B) Lungs
C) Trachea
D) Intestine
Ans: 2
56) Drunkeness of the deep means:
A) Alcohol narcosis
B) Nitrogen narcosis
C) Hydrogen narcosis
D) Opium narcosis
Ans: 2
57) Ligature mark oblique and above thyroid cartilage is a feature of:
A) Strangulation
B) Hanging
C) Bansdola
D) All are true
Ans: 2
58) In sexual asphyxia the manner of death is:
A) Suicidal
B) Accidental
C) Homicidal
D) None of the above
Ans: 2
59) In India which of the following is not an offence:
A) Gerontophilia
B) Paederasty
C) Buggery
D) Incest
Ans: 4
60) Divorce can be filed if there is:
A) Pre existing mental illness
B) Pre existing heart disease
C) Sterility
D) Impotence
Ans: 4
61) Filicide means:
A) Killing of a child by its parents
B) Killing of a child by its relatives
C) Killing of a child by its accuse
D) Killing of a child by decapitation during labor
Ans: 1
62) Breslau’s second life test is related with:
A) Stomach-Bowel
B) Lungs-Heart
C) Kidney-Pancreas
D) Liver-Diaphram
Ans: 1
63) False belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality is:
A) Hallucination
B) Illusion
C) Delusion
D) Obsession
Ans: 3
64) Severe mental retardation means, I.Q level is:
A) 50-70
B) 35-50
C) 20-35
D) Less than 20
Ans: 3
65) Garlik like smell is characteristic of this poison:
A) Aluminum phosphite
B) Ethanol
C) Nitrites
D) Hydrogen sulphite
Ans: 1
66) British anti-lewisite (B.A.L.) is used as a physiological anti dote in following poisons except:
A) Arsenic
B) Lead
C) Bismuth
D) Iron
Ans: 4
67) Route of administration of EDTA chelating agent is:
A) Orally
B) Intra muscular
C) Intra-venus
D) Intra dermal
Ans: 3
68) The stomach content may smell of kerosene in:
A) Alkyl phosphate
B) Phosphorus
C) Copper sulphate
D) Lead acetate
Ans: 1
69) Nail polish remover contain following toxic substance:
A) Methyl salicylate
B) Thallium
C) Antimony
D) Acetone
Ans: 4
70) A patient died with sulphuric acid ingestion than preservative use to preserve viscera for chemical analysis:
A) Saturated solution of NaCl
B) 10% formalin
C) Rectified sprit
D) EDTA
Ans: 3
71) Xanthoproteic reaction present in which of the poison:
A) Sulphuric Acid
B) Nitric Acid
C) Hydrochloric Acid
D) Oxalic Acid
Ans: 2
72) Universal antidote contains all of the following except:
A) Mustered oil
B) Powder charcoal
C) Tannic Acid
D) Magnesium Oxide
Ans: 1
73) A 17 year girl suffer from vitriolage, then accused is punishable under which section:
A) 376 IPC
B) 375 IPC
C) 320 IPC
D) 326 IPC
Ans: 4
74) Green colored urine is seen in which poison ingestion:
A) Copper sulphate
B) Phenol
C) Nitric Acid
D) HCL
Ans: 2
75) Treatment given in acute arsenic poison is:
A) Alkalis
B) Hydrated ferric oxide
C) Chlordiazepoxide
D) Physostigmine
Ans: 2
76) Which is the ideal homicidal poison:
A) Endrin
B) Cannabis indica
C) Thallium
D) Gelsemium
Ans: 3
77) Aldrich-Mees lines is seen in which poisoning:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Thallium
D) Arsenic
Ans: 4
78) Pink disease is associated with which poisoning:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Insulin
D) Copper
Ans: 1
79) Burtonian lines seen in which chronic poisoning:
A) Arsenic
B) Lead
C) Iron
D) Copper
Ans: 2
80) Fowler solution contain one percent of:
A) Arsenic sulphide
B) Arsenious oxide
C) Potassium Arsenite
D) Copper Arsenite
Ans: 3
81) Bowen’s disease is associated with which chronic poisoning:
A) Arsenic
B) Copper
C) Lead
D) Iron
Ans: 1
82) Rate of growth of hair is about one cm. in:
A) 15 days
B) 30 days
C) 60 days
D) 70 days
Ans: 2
83) Cinnabar, Hingul, Ras sindoor, Cheena sindoor contain:
A) Mercuric chloride
B) Mercuric sulphide
C) Mercuric Sulphate
D) Mercuric Methide
Ans: 2
84) Sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate is also used as a chemical antidote in:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Arsenic
D) Copper
Ans: 1
85) The normal dietary intake of copper is about:
A) 0.3 mg per day
B) 1 mg per day
C) 10 mg per day
D) 30 mg per day
Ans: 2
86) In Wilson’s disease there is an increase in absorption of:
A) Lead
B) Copper
C) Antimony
D) Iron
Ans: 2
87) Which is added to petrol to prevent knocking:
A) Lead tatroxide
B) Lead chloride
C) Lead sulphide
D) Lead tetra-ethyl
Ans: 4
88) Maximum amount of lead is found in:
A) Bones
B) Ovary
C) Hair
D) Fetus
Ans: 3
89) Outer two third of eyebrow hair are lost in chronic poisoning of:
A) Arsenic
B) Copper
C) Thallium
D) Zinc
Ans: 3
90) Metal fumes fever is characteristic of chronic poisoning:
A) Zinc
B) Arsenic
C) Lead
D) Iron
Ans: 1
91) Parenteral desferioxamine is treatment of choice in poisoning due to:
A) Zinc
B) Lead
C) Thallium
D) Iron
Ans: 4
92) Fatal dose of Croton is:
A) 4 Seeds
B) 20 Seeds
C) 40 Seeds
D) 100 Seeds
Ans: 1
93) Epidemic dropsy develops in case of poisoning by:
A) Arum maculatum
B) Argemon Mexicana
C) Asia Ti cum
D) Pithori
Ans: 2
94) Cadaveric alkaloids means:
A) Ptomains
B) Bottulisim
C) Allantiasis
D) Hornets
Ans: 1
95) Heroin contains:
A) Diacetylmorphine
B) Diacetyl-Codeine
C) Diacetyl-Narcotine
D) Diacetyl- Papaverine
Ans: 1
96) Percentage of morphine in standardized opium is:
A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 70%
Ans: 1
97) The percentage of absolute alcohol in whisky is:
A) 30-40 %
B) 40-50 %
C) 51-59 %
D) 60-65%
Ans: 2
98) The various forms in which Cannabis Sativa is used are all except:
A) Bhang
B) Majun
C) Charus
D) Heroin
Ans: 4
99) Magnun’s symptom is characteristic of:
A) Charus
B) Heroin
C) Cocain
D) Lathyrus sativus
Ans: 3
100) Suresh presented with dryness of mouth, increase temperature, drunken gait, difficulty in swallowing, the probable
diagnosis is poisoning with:
A) Alcohol
B) Atropine
C) Organo phosphorus
D) Opium
Ans: 2
A) Heart
B) Thorax
C) Abdomen
D) Neck
Ans: 4
32) Which is surest sign of death:
A) Cessation of respiration
B) Cessation of circulation
C) Rigor mortis
D) Cooling of the body
Ans: 3
33) The first external sign of putrefaction in body over skin region develop at the site of:
A) Face
B) Neck
C) Chest
D) Abdomen
Ans: 4
34) When a virgin girl dies the last organ to putrefy is:
A) Heart
B) Lungs
C) Uterus
D) Kidney
Ans: 3
35) Under Indian evidence act a person is presumed to be alive, if there is nothing to suggest the probability of death within:
A) 20 years
B) 30 years
C) 40 years
D) 50 years
Ans: 2
36) Rigor mortis not seen in:
A) Fetus less than 06 months
B) Fetus 10 months
C) Emaciated body
D) 90 year old person
Ans: 1
37) Injury is define under section:
A) 40 IPC
B) 42 IPC
C) 44 IPC
D) 46 IPC
Ans: 3
38) Most common type of abrasion is:
A) Scratches
B) Grazes
C) Pressure
D) Impact
Ans: 2
39) The HARA KIRI unusual type of wound is:
A) Accidental
B) Homicidal
C) Suicidal
D) Explosion
Ans: 3
40) Choking is characteristic of:
A) Shotgun
B) Rifle
C) Revolver
D) Pistol
Ans: 1
41) Following are example of rifled weapons except:
A) Revolver
B) Pistol
C) Machine gun
D) Breech loader gun
Ans: 4
42) What is probable distance of the fire arm if diameter of the spread of shot on the skin is 10 inches:
A) 5 meter
B) 9 meter
C) 15 meter
D) 20 meter
Ans: 2
43) Whiplash injury is associated with:
A) Spinal cord
B) Whiplash intestine
C) Chest injury
D) Abdomen injury
Ans: 1
44) Dowry death is under which section of IPC:
A) 304 A
B) 304 B
C) 304
D) 306
Ans: 2
45) Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by sharp weapon come under section IPC:
A) 324
B) 325
C) 326
D) 323
Ans: 3
46) Lucid interval is seen in:
A) Extra Dural hemorrhage
B) Intraventricular hemorrhage
C) Sub arachnoid hemorrhage
D) Intra cranial hemorrhage
Ans: 1
47) A 16 year girl found dead in burning hut with 100% burn the surest sign of antemortem burn is:
A) Soot particle in mouth
B) Soot in larynx
C) Soot particle in stomach
D) Soot particle in middle ear
Ans: 2
48) Filigree burns are characteristic of:
A) Flame burn
B) Scald
C) Lightning
D) Electrical burn
Ans: 3
49) Blister formation in burn is classified as:
A) First degree
B) Second degree
C) Third degree
D) Fourth degree
Ans: 2
50) Commonest cause of death in hanging is:
A) Asphyxia
B) Venous congestion
C) Asphyxia & Venous congestion
D) Fracture of Cervical vertebrae
Ans: 3
51) Which is sure sign of ante mortem hanging:
A) Sub conjunctiva hemorrhage
B) Neck elongated
C) Secretion of saliva from mouth angle
D) Ligature mark around the neck
Ans: 3
52) Which of the following is example of homicidal hanging:
A) Lynching
B) Bansdola
C) Garroting
D) Mugging
Ans: 1
53) Burking is an example of:
A) Strangulation & hanging
B) Smothering & Traumatic asphyxia
C) Choking & smothering
D) Homicidal strangulation
Ans: 2
54) Whenever large crowd gather in an enclosed place and stamped upon then common cause of death is:
A) Overlaying
B) Traumatic asphyxia
C) Choking
D) Smothering
Ans: 2
55) Paltauf’s hemorrhage found in:
A) Heart
B) Lungs
C) Trachea
D) Intestine
Ans: 2
56) Drunkeness of the deep means:
A) Alcohol narcosis
B) Nitrogen narcosis
C) Hydrogen narcosis
D) Opium narcosis
Ans: 2
57) Ligature mark oblique and above thyroid cartilage is a feature of:
A) Strangulation
B) Hanging
C) Bansdola
D) All are true
Ans: 2
58) In sexual asphyxia the manner of death is:
A) Suicidal
B) Accidental
C) Homicidal
D) None of the above
Ans: 2
59) In India which of the following is not an offence:
A) Gerontophilia
B) Paederasty
C) Buggery
D) Incest
Ans: 4
60) Divorce can be filed if there is:
A) Pre existing mental illness
B) Pre existing heart disease
C) Sterility
D) Impotence
Ans: 4
61) Filicide means:
A) Killing of a child by its parents
B) Killing of a child by its relatives
C) Killing of a child by its accuse
D) Killing of a child by decapitation during labor
Ans: 1
62) Breslau’s second life test is related with:
A) Stomach-Bowel
B) Lungs-Heart
C) Kidney-Pancreas
D) Liver-Diaphram
Ans: 1
63) False belief, based on incorrect interference about external reality is:
A) Hallucination
B) Illusion
C) Delusion
D) Obsession
Ans: 3
64) Severe mental retardation means, I.Q level is:
A) 50-70
B) 35-50
C) 20-35
D) Less than 20
Ans: 3
65) Garlik like smell is characteristic of this poison:
A) Aluminum phosphite
B) Ethanol
C) Nitrites
D) Hydrogen sulphite
Ans: 1
66) British anti-lewisite (B.A.L.) is used as a physiological anti dote in following poisons except:
A) Arsenic
B) Lead
C) Bismuth
D) Iron
Ans: 4
67) Route of administration of EDTA chelating agent is:
A) Orally
B) Intra muscular
C) Intra-venus
D) Intra dermal
Ans: 3
68) The stomach content may smell of kerosene in:
A) Alkyl phosphate
B) Phosphorus
C) Copper sulphate
D) Lead acetate
Ans: 1
69) Nail polish remover contain following toxic substance:
A) Methyl salicylate
B) Thallium
C) Antimony
D) Acetone
Ans: 4
70) A patient died with sulphuric acid ingestion than preservative use to preserve viscera for chemical analysis:
A) Saturated solution of NaCl
B) 10% formalin
C) Rectified sprit
D) EDTA
Ans: 3
71) Xanthoproteic reaction present in which of the poison:
A) Sulphuric Acid
B) Nitric Acid
C) Hydrochloric Acid
D) Oxalic Acid
Ans: 2
72) Universal antidote contains all of the following except:
A) Mustered oil
B) Powder charcoal
C) Tannic Acid
D) Magnesium Oxide
Ans: 1
73) A 17 year girl suffer from vitriolage, then accused is punishable under which section:
A) 376 IPC
B) 375 IPC
C) 320 IPC
D) 326 IPC
Ans: 4
74) Green colored urine is seen in which poison ingestion:
A) Copper sulphate
B) Phenol
C) Nitric Acid
D) HCL
Ans: 2
75) Treatment given in acute arsenic poison is:
A) Alkalis
B) Hydrated ferric oxide
C) Chlordiazepoxide
D) Physostigmine
Ans: 2
76) Which is the ideal homicidal poison:
A) Endrin
B) Cannabis indica
C) Thallium
D) Gelsemium
Ans: 3
77) Aldrich-Mees lines is seen in which poisoning:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Thallium
D) Arsenic
Ans: 4
78) Pink disease is associated with which poisoning:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Insulin
D) Copper
Ans: 1
79) Burtonian lines seen in which chronic poisoning:
A) Arsenic
B) Lead
C) Iron
D) Copper
Ans: 2
80) Fowler solution contain one percent of:
A) Arsenic sulphide
B) Arsenious oxide
C) Potassium Arsenite
D) Copper Arsenite
Ans: 3
81) Bowen’s disease is associated with which chronic poisoning:
A) Arsenic
B) Copper
C) Lead
D) Iron
Ans: 1
82) Rate of growth of hair is about one cm. in:
A) 15 days
B) 30 days
C) 60 days
D) 70 days
Ans: 2
83) Cinnabar, Hingul, Ras sindoor, Cheena sindoor contain:
A) Mercuric chloride
B) Mercuric sulphide
C) Mercuric Sulphate
D) Mercuric Methide
Ans: 2
84) Sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate is also used as a chemical antidote in:
A) Mercury
B) Lead
C) Arsenic
D) Copper
Ans: 1
85) The normal dietary intake of copper is about:
A) 0.3 mg per day
B) 1 mg per day
C) 10 mg per day
D) 30 mg per day
Ans: 2
86) In Wilson’s disease there is an increase in absorption of:
A) Lead
B) Copper
C) Antimony
D) Iron
Ans: 2
87) Which is added to petrol to prevent knocking:
A) Lead tatroxide
B) Lead chloride
C) Lead sulphide
D) Lead tetra-ethyl
Ans: 4
88) Maximum amount of lead is found in:
A) Bones
B) Ovary
C) Hair
D) Fetus
Ans: 3
89) Outer two third of eyebrow hair are lost in chronic poisoning of:
A) Arsenic
B) Copper
C) Thallium
D) Zinc
Ans: 3
90) Metal fumes fever is characteristic of chronic poisoning:
A) Zinc
B) Arsenic
C) Lead
D) Iron
Ans: 1
91) Parenteral desferioxamine is treatment of choice in poisoning due to:
A) Zinc
B) Lead
C) Thallium
D) Iron
Ans: 4
92) Fatal dose of Croton is:
A) 4 Seeds
B) 20 Seeds
C) 40 Seeds
D) 100 Seeds
Ans: 1
93) Epidemic dropsy develops in case of poisoning by:
A) Arum maculatum
B) Argemon Mexicana
C) Asia Ti cum
D) Pithori
Ans: 2
94) Cadaveric alkaloids means:
A) Ptomains
B) Bottulisim
C) Allantiasis
D) Hornets
Ans: 1
95) Heroin contains:
A) Diacetylmorphine
B) Diacetyl-Codeine
C) Diacetyl-Narcotine
D) Diacetyl- Papaverine
Ans: 1
96) Percentage of morphine in standardized opium is:
A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 70%
Ans: 1
97) The percentage of absolute alcohol in whisky is:
A) 30-40 %
B) 40-50 %
C) 51-59 %
D) 60-65%
Ans: 2
98) The various forms in which Cannabis Sativa is used are all except:
A) Bhang
B) Majun
C) Charus
D) Heroin
Ans: 4
99) Magnun’s symptom is characteristic of:
A) Charus
B) Heroin
C) Cocain
D) Lathyrus sativus
Ans: 3
100) Suresh presented with dryness of mouth, increase temperature, drunken gait, difficulty in swallowing, the probable
diagnosis is poisoning with:
A) Alcohol
B) Atropine
C) Organo phosphorus
D) Opium
Ans: 2