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The unlawful ending of a pregnancy outside the protection of the law, often done unsafely, with serious medicolegal importance.
Criminal abortion is unlawful ending outside the law, often unsafe and without medical safeguards; complications are bleeding, infection, injury, air embolism and death; document factually.
Postmortem Changes
The sequence of changes after death, used to estimate the time since death.
Mechanical Injuries (Wounds)
Wounds classified by mechanism — central to medico-legal reporting.
Asphyxial Deaths
Death from interference with the body's oxygen supply.
Livor Mortis (Postmortem Lividity)
Bluish-purple discolouration where blood settles under gravity after death.
Autopsy
A postmortem examination to establish the cause and manner of death.
Firearm Injuries
Wounds produced by projectiles fired from firearms.