Medical Jurisprudence:

Medical Jurisprudence means knowledge of medical science for legal purposes. There are two types of laws, i.e., civil and criminal. Criminal law deals with hurt, death, and purely with human body. Some crimes are committed to cover actual offence like self induce. Some time a man is killed with injury and put into water or fire to conceal its evidence. Importance of medical jurisprudence: This science is used in the following matters:
1. Right investigation: Body gets lose when injury is inflicted to it. It requires proper fixation of liability on the part of offender.
2. Punishment: Proper investigation helps in the punishment to the offender
3. Involvement: This science discriminates, the person actually involved and one who is wrongly charged
4. Self-defence: Person maliciously involved in crime may put the results of the reports or laboratory in his defence
5. Acquitance: Medical jurisprudence may get acquitted the person involved wrongly in an offence.
Terms, which are used in this subject, are as follows:
1. Physiology: Knowledge, which deals with structure of human body, is called physiology or anatomy. It also deals with the functions or system of the organs of body during the time of health. There may be group of organs, which perform or help in performance of single function. A man eats food, his body absorbs and digests it and finally it is made part of the body.
2. Vicera: It is the function of single organ.
3. Pathology: It is the function of organs during the disease. It is knowledge and study of diseases.
4.  Histology: It is normal and abnormal system of internal body. It is the study of body tissues.
5. Microscopy: It is part of histology
6. Biochemistry: It is examination of the samples taken from human body like blood, urine, sliva etc. The study of chemicals processes in organisms
7. Cutameous: Part of bisep, which is inner part and trisep, which is outer part
8. Pharmacology: In normal person medication may react in term of fever. It deals with the action of medicines, in different parts of human body during health. Science of properties and values of medicinal drugs.
9. Therapeutics: Branch of medicine dealing with healing remedies
10. Toxicology: It is reaction of over-dosage. Science of poisonous (toxic) substances.
11.  Endotoxin: Internal poison, internal toxin.
12.  Medial line of body: Line, which divides body into two equal parts.
13.  Cephalic side: Side, which is towards head. Pertaining to head.
14.  Distil side: Side, which is away from head.
15.  Proximal part: It is a part of body, which is towards body attached or fixed or near to body.
16.  Limbs: They are fixed parts of the body. Projecting appendage of the body, arm, leg, wing, large, or main branch of a tree, mischievous child. Injured part of body.
17.  Trunk of body: Two parts of body linked with it are limbs. Tubular limb on the face of an elephant. 18.  Heart: Crdium is called heart. Bodily organ which pumps blood.
19.  Lung: Lungs are called pulmon. Internal organ responsible for transferring oxygen into the bloodstream.
20.  Head: Head contains skull and face. Skull contains brain. Uppermost part of the body containing the brain.
21.  Face: It is apart from brain. Part of the body with the eyes, nose, and mouth.
22.  Moveable part of brain: It is fixed in skull. Main organ of the central nervous system.
23.  Vertebra (singular) or vertebrae (plural): These are 33 or 34 in numbers: Each of the section of the backbone. Neck contains seven vertebrae. First vertebra is called cervical atlis and second one is called cervical axis. Next twelve vertebrae are called thoracic, next five linoler, next five pelvis, next four or five are called coccyx.
24.  Peritoneum: It is a layer of connected tissues of abdominal organs with each other. Serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity. Body of trunk is divided in two portions, thoracic and abdominal. Basic structure is based on bones. Every bone contains joints, which help in locomotive.

Skin consists of
1. Hypo-dermis (inner part)
2. Dermis (sensitive part of skin)
3. Epidermis (outer part) Sub-coetaneous – connective tissue.

Renal – Kidney
Gastrium – Stomach
Cardium –Heart.Inter stitial space. Pulmon – Lungs
Pericardium – which covers the heart. Pericardial – fluid.
Plura – Layer of the lungs which covers.
Synovial fluid – It is fluid, which rests in between bones.
Brain – Menengies. Dura Meter Spine. Part of the term “dura mater” membrane which covers the brain and spinal cord. C. S. F. (Cerebro brain Spinal Fluid).
Lever – Hepatum.

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