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Forensic anthropologist Kerry-Ann Martin examines documents beside human skulls and bones on a table, wearing gloves and a lab coat at the ICMP center in Lukavac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Collecting fingerprints
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Forensic anthropologist Kerry-Ann Martin examines documents beside human skulls and bones on a table, wearing gloves and a lab coat at the ICMP center in Lukavac, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
forensic anthropologist A forensic anthropologist examining a cranium exhumed from a mass grave. The work was conducted as part of a project headed by the International Commission on Missing Persons.

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forensic medicine, the science that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal questions. The use of medical testimony in law cases predates by more than 1,000 years the first systematic presentation of the subject by the Italian Fortunatus Fidelis in 1598. Forensic medicine was recognized as a specialty early in the 19th century. The primary tool of forensic medicine has always been the autopsy. Frequently used for identification of the dead, autopsies may...

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