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JUNVIL A. INSONG
MSCRIM; LLB; CSP
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Forensic Medicine
is a branch of medicine which deals an applies
the medical science in medico-legal cases. It is
then a science which concerns with the medical
aspects of problems that confronts the court. In
practice, it is synonymous with legal medicine,
although Forensic Medicine applied in the
solution of various problems in courts and legal
proceedings
1. Cessation of respiration
2. Cessation of heart beating and circulation
3. Cooling of the body (algor mortis)
d. Physiologic death
A type of death when all the vital organs
have ceased to function.
1. Heat Stiffening
A condition characterized by hardening of the muscles
due to coagulation of muscle proteins when the dead body is
exposed to intense hint as by burning or immersion in a hot
liquid.
2. Cold Stiffening
A condition characterized by hardening of the muscles
due to solidification of facts, muscle and fluid when the dead
body is exposed to extremely cold or freezing temperature.
1. Hypostatic lividity
It is the lividity when the discoloration is
due to the blood pooled in the most dependent
areas of the body.
• Death by electrocution
• Death by Hanging
• Mortal wound
• Non-mortal wound
Kinds of Fracture:
– Simple Fracture – It is an injury where there is the line of
fracture but the alignment of the bones are still intact.
Kinds of dislocation:
– Simple dislocation – A dislocation where there is
displacement of the bones but without external
wound.
– Compound dislocation – A dislocation where there
is displacement of the bones and accompanying
break or wound in the skin.
• Types of abrasion
Uneven breasts mean your two breasts are not of equal size
The base of the breast is typical, but the breast shape is more cone-like
than round with the conical breast shape