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Wide-Mouthed Bottle

Definition

A glass jar with a mouth diameter wide enough to admit a whole stomach or a 200 g chunk of liver. Capacity 250 to 500 ml. Screw-cap, no rubber stopper for volatile-poison cases, no plastic for aluminium phosphide. The standard viscera container in Indian autopsy mortuaries.

Related terms

BNSS Forwarding Form
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Saturated NaCl
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Viscera
The standard set of organs and fluids collected at a suspected poisoning autopsy in India: stomach with contents, a length of upper...
Vitreous Humour
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