(a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.
(n.) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(2) No correlation between volatile make up and geography was found, but the profiling procedures are shown to be of use in the forensic problem of relating samples to a common source.
(3) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(4) A one-year study of staff injuries from inpatient violence at a large forensic state hospital found that 121 staff members sustained 135 injuries.
(5) Excluding stillbirths, perinatal deaths and forensic cases, a total of 434 hospital autopsies were analysed retrospectively, 190 from 1976 and 244 from 1986.
(6) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(7) Therapeutic application of drugs containing propylene glycol 1.2 as a solvent may distort the results of forensic chemical detection of ethylene glycol from its oxidation products.
(8) The accuracy of procedures for sizing hypervariable restriction fragments by Southern blot analysis (SBA) has been tested under three different experimental conditions: (i) intrablot serial analyses: three heterozygous DNA profiles were tested 14 times each in the same gel electrophoresis; (ii) intralaboratory analyses: we replicated three profiles (six autoradiographic bands) in over 100 SBA experiments; (iii) interlaboratory analyses: 15 serial measurements produced in a recent collaborative study (Forensic Sci.
(9) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
(10) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
(11) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
(12) His legal team includes three of South Africa's leading defence lawyers, a number of ballistics and forensic experts and, media reports say, an American crime scene reconstruction company.
(13) During the course of the daily practice of forensic pathology, little or no attention is generally devoted to the tongue (if it is even removed at all during the autopsy examination) except in a handful of relatively well-defined situations.
(14) HP called in PricewaterhouseCoopers to do a forensic review of Autonomy's historical financial results.
(15) A forensic autopsy series of 519 women more than 14 years old was studied for prevalence of benign, atypical, and occult malignant breast lesions.
(16) These applications comprise: site-of-lesion determination, evaluation of therapeutic effects, prophylactic examination, forensic problems and instrumental rehabilitation (hearing-aids, cochlear implants).
(17) The major implication of this finding is in forensic applications.
(18) Forensic tests are being carried out to determine whether any are the missing students.
(19) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
(20) Thus, based on our experience and on a review of the current literature, we have set forth factors that the forensic pathologist should consider when faced with a sudden psychiatric death.
Necropsy
Definition:
(n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Group B, at 1, 2, 4, 9 and 12 months post infection two cats were necropsied.
(2) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
(3) Defects of mitochondrial DNA have been found at necropsy in the myocardium of patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome.
(4) At necropsy, specimens were collected for histological examination, rickettsial immunofluorescence, rickettsial titration, and antirickettsial antibody titration.
(5) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
(6) The frequency of strokes was studied in chronic chagasic and years of age, non-chagasic patients, older than 15 coming to necropsy in Uberaba, from 1979 than 1988.
(7) Necropsy, histologic evaluation, and electron microscopic evaluation revealed organisms in the proventriculus (surface, ductal, and glandular epithelium) compatible in site of development, size, and morphology with Cryptosporidium spp.
(8) At necropsy, the heart weight was increased (greater than 400 g) in all (mean 557 g), the left ventricular cavity was dilated in all, and at least 1 and usually 2 or 3 (86%) major epicardial coronary arteries were narrowed greater than 75% in cross-sectional area by atherosclerotic plaque.
(9) Retrospective analysis of necropsy findings of 705 woodchucks was performed to determine the prevalence and morphology of immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, its relationship to woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection, and the presence of major WHV antigens.
(10) Fibrous bands have been described in the elastic (conducting) pulmonary arteries in 38 cases at necropsy, which represents a necropsy incidence of 14.4%.
(11) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(12) The prevalence of hepatic pseudolipomas was 0.2% in a series of 1300 consecutive necropsies.
(13) The diagnosis was made on the basis of the clinical picture, of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, and of the necropsy findings in 7 of the cases.
(14) At necropsy of an 8-week-old pullet a 0.75 X 5.0 cm.
(15) A tumor involving the caudal portion of the brainstem was detected at necropsy after euthanasia of a 1-month-old llama with clinical signs consistent with vestibular disease.
(16) Necropsy showed remarkable brain edema and focal transmural angiitis at the site of the ruptured aneurysm.
(17) Presence (or absence) of flukes was confirmed by fecal examinations and examination of dissected livers at necropsy of the sheep.
(18) Measurement of cardiac enzymes in blood and pericardial fluid at necropsy can provide valuable additional information in cases of sudden death as a result of myocardial ischaemia which have occurred before macroscopic or microscopic evidence of myocardial infarction.
(19) ICR female mice, 6- to 8-weeks old, were exposed concurrently to 25 metacercarial cysts of Echinostoma caproni and 25 metacercarial cysts of Echinostoma trivolvis and necropsied 10 and 14 days post-infection.
(20) Goats surviving the initial phase of infection tended to overcome the disease with a corresponding increase in the number of abscesses that were sterile at necropsy.