Forensic Medicine Assessment

20 learning units • 10 questions per unit • 200 explained questions

Module 08 — Blunt Trauma & Regional Injuries

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Question 01 • Single best answer

Which feature often supports a laceration rather than an incised wound?

A. Tissue bridges across the wound B. A clean sharp edge in every plane C. Absence of any tissue disruption D. A required depth greater than length

Question 02 • Single best answer

What is an abrasion?

A. Superficial loss or damage of the skin surface B. Blood confined within a vessel C. Complete transection of every skin layer by definition D. A fracture without soft-tissue injury

Question 03 • Single best answer

Can bruise color alone establish an exact injury time?

A. No; appearance varies and precise dating is unreliable B. Yes; each color corresponds to one exact hour C. Yes; lighting has no effect D. Yes; skin tone eliminates all uncertainty

Question 04 • Single best answer

Why can a small scalp wound coexist with serious brain injury?

A. The skull prevents all internal injury B. Internal injury depends on transmitted forces, not just surface wound size C. Small wounds always prove low-energy trauma D. Brain damage requires a large visible laceration

Question 05 • Single best answer

Where is a subdural hematoma located?

A. Between skull and dura B. Within the ventricular CSF only C. Between dura and arachnoid D. Beneath the skin but above the skull

Question 06 • Single best answer

Which statement about a lucid interval is correct?

A. It may occur but is not required or uniquely diagnostic B. It occurs in every fatal head injury C. It proves the absence of intracranial bleeding D. It identifies the weapon used

Question 07 • Single best answer

What finding is especially important to document in an injured limb?

A. Only the patient's clothing color B. Distal neurovascular status C. Only the examiner's preferred mechanism D. A guessed permanent disability before assessment

Question 08 • Single best answer

Why may abdominal trauma require reassessment despite minor external marks?

A. Internal injury or bleeding may initially be clinically subtle B. External marks always predict all organ damage C. Abdominal organs cannot be injured by deceleration D. Delayed symptoms are necessarily fabricated

Question 09 • Single best answer

What does a patterned bruise most defensibly suggest?

A. Unique identification of one object in every case B. The assailant's identity without comparison C. An exact number of strikes regardless of overlap D. Contact compatible with a class of surface, subject to limitations

Question 10 • Single best answer

Which factor can increase bruising without a proportionate increase in applied force?

A. A different evidence-label font B. A later court date C. A change in the patient's name D. Anticoagulant use

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