Medico-Legal Autopsy
Definition
A court-mandated post-mortem examination performed on a body whose death is unnatural, suspicious or unexplained, conducted on requisition from the investigating officer under BNSS Section 194 read with Section 196.
Related terms
- Clinical (Academic) Autopsy
- A post-mortem performed in a hospital to confirm clinical diagnosis or for teaching, with the consent of the next of kin. Not...
- Exhumation Autopsy
- Disinterment and post-mortem of a previously buried body, ordered by the Executive Magistrate under BNSS Section 196(4).
- Provisional Opinion
- The on-the-day cause-of-death statement issued before viscera analysis. Replaced by the final report once the chemical analyst's report comes back.
- Virtopsy (Virtual Autopsy)
- Non-destructive post-mortem imaging using CT and MRI. Pilot programmes exist at NFSU and AIIMS; not yet a replacement for conventional autopsy in...
- Viscera
- The standard set of organs and fluids collected at a suspected poisoning autopsy in India: stomach with contents, a length of upper...
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- Autopsy and Post-Mortem Examination ProtocolA court-mandated post-mortem examination performed on a body whose death is unnatural, suspicious or unexplained, conducted on requisition from the investigati...