LEGAL MED QUIZ

• Use of Standard Specimen, Evidence under question can be compared in order to effect identification.

  By Comparison
• 2 or more persons have to be identified and all but one is not yet identified then the one whose identity has not been established may be known by the process of elimination 


  By exclusion
• Foot is raised high thrown forward and brought down suddenly

  Ataxic Gait
• Staggering movement 


  Cerebellar Gait
• Knock-Knee


  Cow's Gait
• Gait which the steps are short the feet dragged, held more or less widely apart

  Paretic Gait
• Legs are held together and moves in a stiff manner

  Spastic Gait
• Resembles duck


  Waddling Gait
• Hoping Gait due to infantile paralysis

  Frog Gait
• Injection of local anesthetic to numb the area which the tattoo is removed surgically

  Excision
• Sprayed with a solution that freezes the area

  Dermabrasion
• One of the best methods of tattoo removal

  Laser
• Centuries old procedure using local anesthetic applied around the area

  Salabrasion
• Regular form and location with stitch marks

  Surgical Operation
• Scars are large, irregular in shape and may be keloid

  Burns and sealds
• Disc like with depressed center

  Gunshot wounds
• Irregular in shape, furrowed, with edges hardened and uneven

  Tuberculous sinus
• Depressed scar following a loss of tissue

  Gumma
• Bend of elbow, dorsum of feet, temporal region

  Venesection
• Bluish white scar


  Lupus
• Short parallel scars on the lower part of back

  Wetcupping
• Verbal, accurate and picturesque

  Portrait parle
• Measurements of various bony structures

  Anthropometry (Bertillion System
• Dna stands for


  Deoxyribunucleic Acid
• Components of DNA


  Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, Guamine Sequence