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the
application
of
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knowledge to the purpose of law and
in the administration of justice.
The application of basic and clinical,
medical and paramedical sciences to
elucidate legal matters.
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LEGAL MEDICINE
Types of Abrasions
1. Linear
2. Multi-linear
3. Confluent (tapyas)
Special Types of Wounds
1. Patterned wound
2. Defense wound
- A wound sustained when a
victim places a hand, arm or
other body part to prevent or
minimize a blow or slashing by a
sharp weapon.
3. Self-inflicted wound
4. Suicidal wound
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Classification of Firearms
1. Short (revolver, pistol)
2. Long (rifle, AK47, M16, Machine
Gun etc.)
Major parts of Firearm
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Barrel
Handle
Trigger
Percussion cap
Firing Pin
Muzzle
Kinds of Ballistics
1. Internal / Interior from the time
you pull the trigger
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Point of Entry
Smaller and oval in
shape unless it is a
close contact fire.
The
edges
are
inverted
Depending upon a
distance, may be
positive
for
the
products
of
combustion
and
paraffim.
Have a contusion or
abrasion collar
Point of Exit
Usually bigger and
irregular or stellate
in shape.
Everted, and tissued
are protruding.
Always negative.
Absent
WITNESS
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VIRGINITY
-
Virtuous Female
* Senile / Insane
* Those who have
convicted of perjury
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previously
been
Kinds of Virginity:
1. MORAL the state of not knowing
the nature of sexual life and not
having experienced sexual relation.
- Applies to children below the age
of puberty and whose sex organs
and secondary sex characters are
not yet developed.
2. PHYSICAL condition whereby a
woman is conscious of the nature of
the sexual life but has not
experienced sexual intercourse.
The term applies to women who
have reached sexual maturity but
have not experienced sexual
intercourse.
Distinction between True and False Physical
Virginity.
a) True Physical Virginity a condition
wherein hymen is intact with edges
distinct and regular and the opening
small to barely admit the tip of the
smallest finger of the examiners even
if the thighs are separated.
b) False Physical Virginity a
condition wherein the hymen is
unruptured but the orifice is wide
and elastic to admit two or more
fingers of the examiner with a lesser
degree of resistance.
-the hymen may be laxed and
distensible and may have previous
sexual relation. In this particular
instance the physician may not be
able to make a convincing
conclusion that the subject is virgin.
3. DEMI-VIRGIN
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6. Self-scratching or irritation
7. Masturbation
8. Insertion of foreign bodies
9. Previous operation
10. Horseback riding
11. Aerobics / biking
12. Throma to the genitalia
Degree of Laceration:
a) Incomplete Laceration
- Rupture or laceration of the
hymen is considered incomplete
when it does not involve the
whole width or height of hymen.
Superficial the laceration does not
go beyond one-half of the whole
width of the hymen
Deep the laceration involves more
than one-half of the width of the
hymen but not reaching the base.
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b) Complete Laceration
- The hymenal laceration involves
the whole width but not beyond
the base of the hymen
c) Compound or Complicated
- The laceration involves the
hymen and also the surrounding
tissues.
- It may involve the hymen also
the surrounding tissues.
- It may involve the perineum,
vaginal canal, urethra or rectum.
DEATH
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3 Kinds of Death
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NON-OFFICIAL /
NON MEDICO
LEGAL
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-medico legal or
mandatory autopsy.
-done on those who
died on non-natural
causes
-NO NEED for
consent of the next
of kin.
-always a TOTAL
autopsy
-Only those
authorized by law
may perform this
kind of autopsy
-hospital based or
elective autopsy
-done to those who
died from natural
causes
-consent from next
of kin is needed,
they will decide
whether it will be a
TOTAL or PARTIAL
autopsy.
-by the pathologist
of the hospital