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Ans:C. Artificial bruise.

The nut shown in the picture above is semicarpus anacardium which is used to prodouce artificial bruise.

MARKING NUT

• Latin name: Semecarpus anacardium

• English name: Marking nut

Uses:

• Laundry marker,Quack remedy for assorted ailments,Ink Preparation

• The nut is black, roughly cone shaped, and has a thick pericarp.

• The contained juice is brown, oily, and acrid.

• Its active principles are Semecarpol and bhilawanol.

Medicolegal aspects:

• The juice is used as an abortifacient by application to the os uteri by means of an abortion stick. It is applied to the genitals as a punishment for adultery.

• It is used by malingerers to produce an artificial bruise to support a false charge; its presence, however, can be detected by chemical analysis of the blister fluid.

• The juice may be instilled into the eyes to produce an irritant conjunctivitis.

• This is resorted to by personnel in army, navy or air force when they wish to leave the job or by inmates of jail to avoid work.

• Accidental poisoning may occur from internal administration by quacks.

CONTUSION (BRUISE)

Effusion of blood into tissues due to rupture of blood vessels caused by blunt trauma.