(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.
Thanatology
Definition:
(n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group of thanatological problems comprises also the question what happens in the patient's psyche in the last stage of his life.
(2) Significant differences in death imagery and death anxiety were found between subjects enrolled in an introductory psychology course and those enrolled in a thanatology course.
(3) The pattern of immediate causes of death and types of terminal states (mechanisms of death) has been examined on the basis of thanatological analysis of 190 deaths occurred after operations on the heart (valve prosthesis) and lung (pneumonectomy).
(4) Autothanatobiographic insights and experiences in thanatologic praxis in long-time illness until death lead to more differentiated insights than short-time illness until death--especially in respect of changing and contrary courses.
(5) Possibilities of thanatologic information, forms of dialogue, communicative engagement and self-attitude in care-situations are critically conferred--this even in regard to mourning, grief and sorrow of the bereaved.
(6) The author deals in more detail with several areas where collaboration between churches and health services seems promising: psychiatry and clinical psychology, nursing, thanatology, prevention.
(7) The complexities, widespread ramifications and uncertainties surrounding decisions dealing with the process of dying call for a specialty of clinical thanatology.
(8) After assessing the kind of care it was providing to terminally ill patients and their families, Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring (MD) committed itself to a more balanced program of care that included the creation of a thanatology department, implementation of special educational programs for hospital personnel, and exploration of the possibility of establishing a hospice care concept at the hospital.
(9) History of origination of a term "thanatology' its interpretation nowadays by pathologists and medicolegal examiners are considered in this work.
(10) The present paper reports some of the observations and subjective reactions experienced by the writer while engaged in a series of experimental thanatological research studies.
(11) But the stress for all medical personnel remains high, and there remains an unfulfilled need to teach effective thanatological techniques to all medical personnel.
(12) The confrontation of thanatologic data in short-time illness until death to autopathothanatobiographic insights in long-time illness until death seems comparable in respect to relations between present clinical findings and anamnestic data.
(13) While community hospitals increasingly are becoming community health care centers, evidence suggests a great need for most of these institutions to improve their care of the terminally ill. Based on a study of existing care programs and of thanatology literature, the authors have developed a model hospital program for dying patients and their families that uses a team approach to integrate resources for their care.
(14) The author develops some proposals, how the requests of thanatology that were adequat to improve the actual situation, could better be transferred to the practice.
(15) This is followed by a description of principal empirical findings, clinical perceptions, and perspectives emerging from work in the thanatological realm.
(16) Not only this is to think over in treatment and care, but also some new thanatologic experiences of the last years--for instance in respect to the question of timing, various circumstances and possible forms of informations and clearing up.
(17) Ethical and pragmatic considerations often preclude the application of classical experimental approaches to in vivo thanatological research.
(18) This paper discusses three topics pertaining to what the Emperor's death highlighted from a thanatological viewpoint: (1) junshi, or following one's master into death, (2) the disclosure of the nature of a malignant illness, and (3) death with dignity.
(19) The III category: iatrogenic diseases did not play a considerable role in the thanatology.
(20) Extensive results of thanatologic sciences since the first decades of 20. century and multivarious practical knowledge in clinical thanatology are discussed--relating to the central problem of understanding different forms of "realisation of death".