ASTM E1732
Standard Terminology Relating to Forensic Science
| Organization: | ASTM |
| Publication Date: | 10 May 1996 |
| Status: | inactive |
| Page Count: | 3 |
| ICS Code (Medical sciences and health care facilities in general): | 11.020 |
| ICS Code (Health care technology (Vocabularies)): | 01.040.11 |
scope:
This is a compilation of terms and corresponding definitions used in the forensic sciences. Legal or scientific terms that are generally understood or defined adequately in other readily available sources may not be included.
A definition is a single sentence with additional information included in notes. It is reviewed every five years, and the year of last review or revision is appended.
Definitions identical to those published by another standards
organization or ASTM committee are
identified with the abbreviation of the name of the organization or
the identifying document and
ASTM committee; for example, ASME is the American Society of
Mechanical Engineering.(Footnot
Definitions of terms specific to a particular field are identified
with an abbreviation.(Footno
Footnote 2 - Any definition that is unsourced has been developed by ASTM Subcommittee E30.92.
Footnote 3 - Abbreviations are as follows: CRIM = criminalistics, QD = questioned documents, ENGR = engineering, TOX = toxicology, PB = pathology/biology, ANTH = anthropology, and ODEN = odentology.
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