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Forensic

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

forensic

to do with courts. Thus a barrister has forensic skills, forensic medicine is the application of medicine to legal issues in courts and forensic accountancy is the application of accounting skill to legal issues.

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Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences from Recovery to Cause of Death.

Morphometric Analysis of the Scapula and Their Differences between Females and Males/ Analisis Morfometrico de la Escapula y sus Diferencias entre Hombres y Mujeres

The Forensic Anthropology Program (FAP), a subgroup of the Trace Evidence Unit (TEU), began its pilot year in April 2010.

The FBI Laboratory Division's new Forensic Anthropology Program

Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association, Springfield, Illinois, 2006.

The "forensic bulldozer" as a clandestine grave search tool

This is the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center or--as it is more commonly referred to--the Body Farm.

Learning to let the evidence reveal the truth: the Body Farm reveals more than just bodies

Initial issues include stories and articles on: university forensic science programs; forensic autopsies; RFID as a means of evidence tracking; the role of forensic anthropology in mass fatality incidents; investment for forensic laboratories, forensic science standards, and forensic education.

"Forensic science policy & management" launched

The day before, in a forensic anthropology lab, I saw warehoused cardboard boxes full of bones exhumed from the mass graves still being uncovered, Some of my listeners in prison fled north to the United States as children after seeing young women raped, men decapitated, or homes burned by their government.

Tattoos and Bright Lights: inside Guatemala's gang prisons

EAAF (2005): Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team Annual Report.

Invitados distinguidos o agentes de injerencia: la participacion extranjera en las excavaciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola

Today, he is the scientific director of the facility in Hawaii, which is the largest forensic anthropology laboratory in the world.

Bringing them home; Lab's mission is to recover and identify the 90,000 American soldiers missing in action

There are thousands of villages where mass graves are still to be exhumed, and as time goes by, villagers are losing their fear of recovering their loved ones, according to Fredy Peccerelli, director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, the country's largest mass grave diggers.

Giving war victims burial heals communities

The forensic anthropology chapter is most interesting, explaining the use of skeletal remains to determine both a subject's identity and age.

Fundamentals of Forensic Science

Dr Caroline Wilkinson, a senior lecturer in forensic anthropology at Dundee University, spent two weeks putting together the plaster facsimile after studying the skeletal structure and soft tissue detail.

Dead body's face rebuilt

Buried Secrets is the culmination of Sanford's years with the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhuming clandestine graves.