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        1. Cyanosis - Bluish discoloration in extremities, organs and hypostatic areas seen soon after death. 

        2. Congestion - eyes and all organs

        3. Tissue oedema - all organs and well seen  in lungs

        4. Petechial haemorrhages - head / face / eye lids / behind ears / submucous / subserous / subcapsular epicardium (Tardieu spots) , interlobar fissures in lungs 

        5. Other findings - Increased fluidity of blood with veins and right heart distended with fluid blood, Blood stained discharge at nose and mouth, Voidance of semen urine and faeces

 ? Other conditions those cause above findings          ? Are these changes diagnostic of asphyxia

      Pathophysiologhy of asphyxia