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Forensic
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Forensic Pertaining to or applied in legal proceedings.
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Forearm
The portion of the upper limb from the elbow to the wrist. In popular usage, the arm extends from the shoulder to the hand. However, in medical terminology, the arm refers to the upper extremity extending from the shoulder only to the elbow. The arm is thus distinguished in medical usage from the forearm, which extends from the elbow to the wrist.The forearm has 2 bones: the radius and ulna.
Foredoomance
The inevitable consequence of living culminating in eventual degeneration, decline, disease and death; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Foreign body airway obstruction
Partial or complete blockage of the breathing tubes to the lungs due to a foreign body.
Forensic anthropology
The application of the science of physical anthropology to the legal process. Forensic anthropology includes the identification of skeletal, decomposed, or unidentified human remains. Forensic anthropologists may team up with forensic pathologists, forensic dentists, and homicide detectives to identify a dead person and the time and manner of their death. Forensic anthropology may also help determine the age, sex, stature, and unique features of the deceased from their remains. DNA forensics, blood groups, and fingerprints are all tools of the trade in forensic anthropology today.
Forensic dentistry
Practice of gathering legal evidence for body identification or judicial issues.
Forensic genetics
The branch of genetics that deals with the application of genetic knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Forensic genetics is also a branch of forensic medicine which deals more broadly with the application of medical knowledge to legal matters.
Forensic medicine
The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Also called legal medicine. A physician may be engaged in forensic (or legal) medicine; a lawyer with comparable interests is said to be engaged in medical jurisprudence.
Forensics
Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. For example, forensic pathology is the study of the human body to determine cause and manner of death. Criminalistics is the application of various sciences to answer questions relating to examination and comparison of biological evidence, trace evidence, impression evidence, drugs and firearms. Forensic odontology is the study of the uniqueness of dentition. Etcetera.
Foreplay
The traditional term for erotosexual activity during the proceptive phase in which manual, oral, and other skin and body contact ensure erection of the penis, lubrication of the vagina, and an urgency of being ready for orgasm, usually penovaginally induced.
Foreskin
The flap of skin that normally covers the head of the penis; it is removed when a baby is circumcised.
Foreskin and glans, inflammation of the
In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis (inflammation of the foreskin) usually occur together as balanoposthitis: inflammation of both the glans and foreskin. Circumcision prevents balanoposthitis. Without a foreskin, there can of course be no posthitis and hence no balanoposthitis.
Foreskin, inflammation of the
Inflammation of the foreskin of the penis (the prepuce) is called posthitis. In the uncircumcised male, posthitis and balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) usually occur together as balanoposthitis: inflammation of both the glans and foreskin. Circumcision prevents balanoposthitis. Without a foreskin, there can of course be no posthitis and hence no balanoposthitis.
Forest County Medical Center
The Forest County Medical Center is a hospital in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, United States.
Forest Park Health Center
The Forest Park Health Center is a hospital in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States.
Forestier disease
A form of degenerative arthritis characteristically associated with flowing calcification along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine and commonly with inflammation (tendinitis) and calcification of the tendons at their attachments points to bone. Because areas of the spine and tendons can become inflamed, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen can be helpful in relieving both pain and inflammation. Forestier disease is also called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH).
Forestier's disease
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. (DISH, Ankylosing hyperostosis). Florid new bone formation at entheses results in spinal stiffness. May be confused with ankylosing spondylitis.
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Fibroblast
A connective tissue cell.
Fictive image
An image in the mind that is not perceived through the senses, but construed in the imagination on the basis of past perceptions retrieved from memory and reconstituted.
Fisting
Vernacular term for the sexuoerotic practice of inserting the hand and forearm into the rectum or vagina, also known, respectively, as brachiorectal and brachiovaginal insertion. Also known as brachioproctic eroticism (BPE) and brachiovaginal eroticism (BVE).
Flagellant
A person who undergoes whipping or scourging, especially as a religious penitent, or as a sexual masochist.
Foredoomance
The inevitable consequence of living culminating in eventual degeneration, decline, disease and death; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Forensic
Foreplay
The traditional term for erotosexual activity during the proceptive phase in which manual, oral, and other skin and body contact ensure erection of the penis, lubrication of the vagina, and an urgency of being ready for orgasm, usually penovaginally induced.
Formicophilia
A specialized variety of zoophilia in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on the sensations produced by small creatures like snails, frogs, ants, or other insects creeping, crawling, or nibbling the genitalia and perianal area, and the nipples.
Frigidity
In sex, the failure to become sexually aroused or passionate. Traditionally, it has been applied chiefly to women but now is considered too imprecise, unscientific and judgmental. Prefered are the terms "situationally anorgasmic" or "pre-orgasmic."
Frottage
See frotteurism.
Frotteur
One who has the syndrome of frotteurism.
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Forearm
The portion of the upper limb from the elbow to the wrist. In popular usage, the arm extends from the shoulder to the hand. However, in medical terminology, the arm refers to the upper extremity extending from the shoulder only to the elbow. The arm is thus distinguished in medical usage from the forearm, which extends from the elbow to the wrist.The forearm has 2 bones: the radius and ulna.
Foredoomance
The inevitable consequence of living culminating in eventual degeneration, decline, disease and death; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Foreign body airway obstruction
Partial or complete blockage of the breathing tubes to the lungs due to a foreign body.
Forensic anthropology
The application of the science of physical anthropology to the legal process. Forensic anthropology includes the identification of skeletal, decomposed, or unidentified human remains. Forensic anthropologists may team up with forensic pathologists, forensic dentists, and homicide detectives to identify a dead person and the time and manner of their death. Forensic anthropology may also help determine the age, sex, stature, and unique features of the deceased from their remains. DNA forensics, blood groups, and fingerprints are all tools of the trade in forensic anthropology today.
Forensic dentistry
Practice of gathering legal evidence for body identification or judicial issues.
Forensic genetics
The branch of genetics that deals with the application of genetic knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Forensic genetics is also a branch of forensic medicine which deals more broadly with the application of medical knowledge to legal matters.
Forensic medicine
The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Also called legal medicine. A physician may be engaged in forensic (or legal) medicine; a lawyer with comparable interests is said to be engaged in medical jurisprudence.
Forensics
Forensics or forensic science is the application of science to questions which are of interest to the legal system. For example, forensic pathology is the study of the human body to determine cause and manner of death. Criminalistics is the application of various sciences to answer questions relating to examination and comparison of biological evidence, trace evidence, impression evidence, drugs and firearms. Forensic odontology is the study of the uniqueness of dentition. Etcetera.
Foreplay
The traditional term for erotosexual activity during the proceptive phase in which manual, oral, and other skin and body contact ensure erection of the penis, lubrication of the vagina, and an urgency of being ready for orgasm, usually penovaginally induced.
Foreskin
The flap of skin that normally covers the head of the penis; it is removed when a baby is circumcised.
Foreskin and glans, inflammation of the
In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis (inflammation of the foreskin) usually occur together as balanoposthitis: inflammation of both the glans and foreskin. Circumcision prevents balanoposthitis. Without a foreskin, there can of course be no posthitis and hence no balanoposthitis.
Foreskin, inflammation of the
Inflammation of the foreskin of the penis (the prepuce) is called posthitis. In the uncircumcised male, posthitis and balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) usually occur together as balanoposthitis: inflammation of both the glans and foreskin. Circumcision prevents balanoposthitis. Without a foreskin, there can of course be no posthitis and hence no balanoposthitis.
Forest County Medical Center
The Forest County Medical Center is a hospital in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, United States.
Forest Park Health Center
The Forest Park Health Center is a hospital in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States.
Forestier disease
A form of degenerative arthritis characteristically associated with flowing calcification along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine and commonly with inflammation (tendinitis) and calcification of the tendons at their attachments points to bone. Because areas of the spine and tendons can become inflamed, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen can be helpful in relieving both pain and inflammation. Forestier disease is also called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH).
Forestier's disease
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. (DISH, Ankylosing hyperostosis). Florid new bone formation at entheses results in spinal stiffness. May be confused with ankylosing spondylitis.
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Fibroblast
A connective tissue cell.
Fictive image
An image in the mind that is not perceived through the senses, but construed in the imagination on the basis of past perceptions retrieved from memory and reconstituted.
Fisting
Vernacular term for the sexuoerotic practice of inserting the hand and forearm into the rectum or vagina, also known, respectively, as brachiorectal and brachiovaginal insertion. Also known as brachioproctic eroticism (BPE) and brachiovaginal eroticism (BVE).
Flagellant
A person who undergoes whipping or scourging, especially as a religious penitent, or as a sexual masochist.
Foredoomance
The inevitable consequence of living culminating in eventual degeneration, decline, disease and death; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Forensic
Foreplay
The traditional term for erotosexual activity during the proceptive phase in which manual, oral, and other skin and body contact ensure erection of the penis, lubrication of the vagina, and an urgency of being ready for orgasm, usually penovaginally induced.
Formicophilia
A specialized variety of zoophilia in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on the sensations produced by small creatures like snails, frogs, ants, or other insects creeping, crawling, or nibbling the genitalia and perianal area, and the nipples.
Frigidity
In sex, the failure to become sexually aroused or passionate. Traditionally, it has been applied chiefly to women but now is considered too imprecise, unscientific and judgmental. Prefered are the terms "situationally anorgasmic" or "pre-orgasmic."
Frottage
See frotteurism.
Frotteur
One who has the syndrome of frotteurism.
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