The best indicator of antemortem drowning is –
Correct Answer: Froth in mouth and nostrils
Description: PM findings of drowning
External findings
A) Specific (diagnostic)
White, one, lathery, abundant and tenacious froth at nose and mouth which increases on chest compression.
Weeds, grass, plants, mud or stones in tightly clenched hands.
B) Non-specific
Washer woman hand and feet.
Cutis antenna (goose skin).
Half opened eye with the dilated pupil and congested conjunctiva.
Internal findings
Specific (diagnostic)
i) Water in stomach and intestine.
ii) Diatoms in bone marrow and brain.
B. Non-specific
Emphysema aquosum.
Paltauf's hemorrhage (sub pleural hemorrhage).
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