Colliquative Putrefaction (Colliquative liquefaction, colliquative liquefying putrefaction) Definition During stage of Appearance of Maggots liquefaction of tissues (Colliquative Putrefaction) takes place. Here...
Psychological Autopsy Introduction Psychological autopsy is a recently developed postmortem investigative tool that aids in the determination of a person’s cause of...
Artefacts (Artifact) Any change or alteration, which is man-made as a whole or introduced in the natural state of the body likely...
Second Autopsy Definition After the first autopsy (Postmortem examination) when a repeat medicolegal postmortem is performed with the authorisation by law it...
Live Born Child Live born child is one, which is partly or wholly born external to the mother and showed some signs...
Stomach Bowel Test (Breslaus Second Life Test) Introduction This test is done to determine whether the child was born alive or not....
Floatation Test (Hydrostatic Test) Introduction Hydrostatic test is a test done to confirm whether the lungs tested are from a respired newborn...
Obscure Autopsy Definition An autopsy done meticulously, properly and perfectly, but may present with no clear-cut findings as to give a definite...
Negative Autopsy Definition An autopsy, which fails to reveal the cause of death with gross, microscopic, toxicologic and other laboratory investigations is...
Medicolegal Autopsy (Forensic or coroner’s autopsy) Definition A medicolegal autopsy is a special type of autopsy or postmortem examination, ordered by the...