A patient is brought to you with alleged history of assault 2 hours ago. You seen multiple well defined bruises with vesication over the flexor aspect of left hand and skin of right leg. You suspect that the bruises are aificially made. Which of the following will be more suggestive of an aificially made wound?
Feature of aificial bruising is given below: 1) Seen on exposed easily accessible pas 2) Dark brown in colour 3) Well defined wound covered with vesicles 4) Inflammation around the surrounding site 5) Itching 6) Vesicles on the fingeip and other pas of the body due to scratching Note: Aificial bruises can be caused by juice of marking nut, calotropis or plumbago rosea Ref: Textbook of Forensic Medicine by Narayana Reddy, Edition 20, Page 155
Bright red wound
The wound margins are well defined with small vesicles covering it
Inflammation at the site of the wound
Extravasated blood present