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Forensic Medicine: Drowning, Asphyxia and Knight's Pathology
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30 min
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26 May 2026
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30 min
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Updated
26 May 2026
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This mock test covers the forensic pathology of asphyxia, drowning, and toxic gas deaths as examined in UGC-NET Paper II Unit X. Questions test precise differentiation of asphyxia types: mechanical (hanging, ligature strangulation, throttling, smothering), environmental (wet drowning, dry drowning, immersion syndrome), and toxic (CO poisoning, cyanide poisoning). Key autopsy findings include the ligature furrow direction distinguishing hanging from ligature strangulation, hyoid and thyroid cartilage fracture patterns in throttling versus ligature strangulation, Paltauf haemorrhages and washerwoman's hands in wet drowning, the diatom test using acid digestion of femur marrow, cherry-red lividity from carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb), and Tardieu petechiae. Legal framing uses BNS 2023 Section 101 (formerly IPC 1860 Section 300) for homicidal asphyxia.
Designed for MSc Forensic Science and LLM medico-legal candidates preparing for UGC-NET Paper II, NFSU MSc entrance, and AIIMS Delhi PG forensic medicine papers. All questions are calibrated against Knight and Saukko (Knight's Forensic Pathology, 4th ed., CRC Press), DiMaio and DiMaio (Forensic Pathology, 2nd ed.), Reddy K.S. Narayana (35th ed.), Modi's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology, and Spitz and Fisher. Distractors differ on one forensic parameter: wet vs dry drowning, hanging vs strangulation furrow direction, COHb vs cyanide autopsy signs.
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