Forensic Medicine revision checklist for NEET PG, INI-CET & FMGE

Medial clavicle sternal-end fusion — the >25 year marker

Choosing the right radiograph to prove 18 years

Wrist and hand radiograph bone-age reading

Basisphenoid suture and iliac-crest fusion timing

Ossification centre age-site matching trap

Palmer vs FDI vs Universal notation on the image

First permanent tooth and eruption sequence

Gustafson method — root transparency is the key indicator

Ethnic tooth traits — Carabelli vs shovel incisors

Fetal age from length — Haase's rule and CRL

Fetal autopsy — cranial cavity opened first

Trans-inguinal testicular descent timing

Live-birth tests — Breslau and Ploucquet

Fingerprint gestational appearance and ridge alterations

FINDER eight-digit technique — the omitted fingers

Palatoprint — the anterior hard-palate sampling site

Least reliable identification modality — the nail trap

Tattoo pigment persistence in regional lymph nodes

Tattooing pigments — the osmium blue exclusion

Locard's principle of exchange

Ewing's postulates — trauma-to-disease causation

Best organ for DNA extraction at autopsy

Detecting old washed-up bloodstains — luminol

Male vs female pelvis — sciatic notch and subpubic angle

Male vs female skull — glabella and eminences

Craniometry — brachycephaly and the Ashley rule

Adipocere — saponification of body fat

Marbling — greenish branching venous pattern on the image

Onset timing of marbling, adipocere and liquefaction

Mummification — the odourless dried body

First organ to putrefy and the colour chemistry

External bloating — swollen face and protruding tongue

Hypostasis distribution — the drowning exception statement

Cause of skin discolouration on the autopsy image

Nysten's rule — rigor descends head to toe

Heat stiffening threshold and rigor exceptions

Cadaveric spasm — the conditions it accompanies