Viscera
The standard set of organs and fluids collected at a suspected poisoning autopsy in India: stomach with contents, a length of upper small intestine, portions of liver and kidney, samples of blood, urine, bile and vitreous humour, each preserved separately in saturated sodium chloride or rectified spirit and sealed under the autopsy surgeon's seal before despatch to FSL.
Explained in these topics
- Biological, Non-Biological and Viscera Matrices in Toxicology
- Introduction and Scope of Forensic Toxicology
- Post-Mortem Examination and Viscera Collection in Poisoning
- Autopsy and Post-Mortem Examination Protocol
- Extraction, Isolation and Clean-up of Poisons from Viscera
- Criminal Investigations: Deaths, Assaults, Poisoning, Accidents