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Belonging to courts of justice. forensic 1) adj. from Latin forensis for "belonging to the forum," ancient Rome's site for public debate, and currently meaning pertaining to the courts. Thus, forensic testimony or forensic medicine are used to assist the court or the attorneys in legal matters, including trials. forensic adjective adapted to argumentation, argumentative, barristerial, belonging to courts of justice, belonging to debate, capable of being deeated, concerning the law, contentious, contestable, controversial, controvertible, discursive, disputable, fitted for legal argumentation, fitted for publicargumentation, in the field of public debate, judicatory, judicial, jural, juridic, jurisdictional, jurisprudential, juristic, lawful, learned in the law, legal, legalistic, litigious, open to discussion, pertaining to the courts, pertaining to the law, polemical, proper to public debate, statutory, subject to contention, subject to controversy Associated concepts: forensic medicine See also: juridical How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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What: Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz return for a second season of flirting and forensic anthropology. Midway through her career as a medical illustrator, she went back to school to study forensic anthropology, and then found her way onto the scenes of some of the most horrific and high-profile crimes of recent times, among them the 1993 massacre of cult members in Waco, Texas. On July 15, 2003, the remains of Precious Doe were exhumed and the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) laboratory reconstructed the child's skull and prepared a model of what the child's face may have looked like. |
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