PROCEDURE OF MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY & ITS ANATOMICAL ASPECT
Dr. Sanjay Goswami* and Dr. Madhavi Goswami
ABSTRACT
An autopsy, also called as Necropsy or post mortem examination, is
the examination of a person’s body after death. It is an essential part of
investigation to determine the cause of death. Autopsy means
(autos=self. Opis=view) to see for oneself. Necropsy (necros=dead,
opis=view) is most accurate term for investigative dissection of dead
body, but term autopsy is commonly used and is more popular.
Autopsy is of two types
(1) Medicolegal Autopsy find cause and manner of unnatural
death e.g. murder, suicide, accident etc.
(2) Hospital Autopsy To know whether the person is suffering
from any disease and if death was caused due to carcinoma, genetic
disorder or some other undiagnosed disease.
Procedure of Autopsy consists of external examination and internal examination. For doing
autopsy we have to know about general anatomy of body in detail because any abnormal
condition of body we have to analyse with the normal condition or normal anatomy of body.
Keywords: Autopsy, necropsy, postmortem.
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