Medical Jurisprudence – MCQs

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1.How many methods are used to analyze bloodstains?

2.Which condition includes idiocy, imbecility, and feeble-mindedness?

3.How many categories are there in the medico-legal classification of insanity?

4.What term is used to describe the unnatural death of a newborn baby?

5.Sadism, masochism, and fetishism are classified as which type of behaviors?

6.What term is used to describe a woman who has never engaged in sexual intercourse?

7.What does the term "impotence" refer to?

8.Suffocation is a type of asphyxia resulting from blockage of _________ to the lungs, excluding neck compression and drowning.

9.What term describes a fatal injury caused by external pressure applied to the neck by a hand or an object, where the force is not due to the body's own weight?

10.Hanging is characterized by neck compression caused by a ligature and ____________?

11.How many types of asphyxial deaths are there?

12.What is the term for an injury resulting from contact with hot liquid at or near its boiling temperature?

13.What is the term for a wound that goes completely through the human body, entering one side and exiting the other?

14.Penetrating and perforating injuries are classified as which type of wound?

15.What type of wounds result from injuries inflicted by knives, daggers, sickles, pins, or needles?

16.What type of injury results in a tear of the skin and underlying tissue, characterized by ragged, uneven, and irregular wound edges?

17.What is another term commonly used for bruises?

18.Which term describes the injury caused when the body rubs against a coarse surface?

19.What is the term for the type of abrasion caused by continuous or intense pressure crushing the skin?

20.What type of abrasion is caused by an injury from a needle on the penis or finger?