Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter	70%
Ease of Revision	8.80 / 10

This is a dry chapter, with lot of focus on sequence of events. You have to remember not just what can happen, but also when it happens. All the best.

• Appearances of various PM changes
• Timimg of PM changes
• Factors hastening / delaying PM changes
• Cadaveric Rigidity vs Cadaveric spasm

Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about

• Late signs of death
• Odor of the mummified body
• Postmortem marbling – timing
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Condition favourable for adipocere formation
• Increase in temperature of the body for first 2 hours
• Forensic taphonomy – Definition
• Pugilistic attitude
• First external sign of putrefaction
• Fixation of hypostasis – timing
• Nysten’s rule
• Casper dictum is related to
• Order of putrefaction
• Glove and stocking hypostasis
• Conditions favourable for mummification
• Postmortem Changes – Image

Few more areas that might be asked:

• Factors affecting rate of postmortem cooling
• Postmortem autolysis
• Factors delaying Putrefaction
• Postmortem Eye Changes
• Honeycombing of liver
• Maggots – Timimg
• Suspended animation
• Postmortem lividity – image
• Algor mortis
• Harvard criteria for brain death
• Tests to check cessation of circulation
• Cadaveric Rigidity vs Cadaveric spasm
• Kevorkian sign
• Zasko’s phenomenon