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Legal Medicine Finals Coverage (as per my notes):

Presumption of Death
- Rule 131, Sec. 5 (x), (jj), and (kk)
Death
Kinds of Death
Changes in the Body following Death
- primary flaccidity
- rigor mortis
- conditions simulating rigor mortis
Signs of Death
Harvard Criteria
Death and its Medico-Legal Aspects
Manner of Death
- natural
- violent
Stages
- crime scene investigation
- autopsy ( when is it necessary; mistakes )
Special Death
- juridical death
- euthanasia
- suicide
Methods of Autopsy
- embalming
- exhumation
Medico-Legal Aspects of Physical Injuries
Causes of Physical Injuries
- focus on physical violence
Wounds and its Classifications
Legal Classifications of Wounds
Gunshot Wounds
Distance Fires
Death by Asphyxiation
Phases of Asphyxiation
- dysmic (?)
- convulsive (?)
- apnic (?)
Classifications of Death by Asphyxiation
- hanging

- strangulation ( difference between hanging and strangulation)


- compression asphyxia
- drowning
Sexuality
Stages of Sexuality
Sexual Dysfunction
Sexual Disorders
Sexual Crimes
- virginity and its kinds
- chastity
- defloration
Paternity and Filiation
N.B. According to Atty. Merced, focus on Death, Physical Injuries, and Crime Scene Investigation.
P.S. Please feel free to correct anything or add those that I might not have written. Thank you.
-From DLUSA Vice Chancellor

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