RE-EXAMINATION

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  follow-up \follow-up\ n.
     1. a second (or subsequent) action to increase the
        effectiveness of an initial action. Also used
        attributively; as a follow-up visit.
  
     Note: A follow-up may be of various types. After a medical


           examination, a second examination (or {reexamination})
           to obtain additional information regarding some fact
           discovered in the first examination is considered a
           follow-up. A second visit or phone call in pursuit of a
           sale or other request would also be a follow-up.
  
     Syn: reexamination, review.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  
     2. (Journalism) A subsequent story providing information
        discovered or events happening after a first story was
        published.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Journalism) Same as {sidebar}.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reexamination \Re`ex*am`i*na"tion\ (-?*n?"sh?n), n.
     A repeated examination. See under {Examination}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Examination \Ex*am`i*na"tion\, n. [L. examinatio: cf. F.
     examination.]
     1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a
        careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by
        study or experiment.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing
        qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a
        candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the
              examinations.                         --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Examination in chief}, or {Direct examination} (Law), that
        examination which is made of a witness by a party calling
        him.
  
     {Cross-examination}, that made by the opposite party.
  
     {Re["e]xamination}, or {Re-direct examination}, (Law) that
        questioning of a witness at trial made by the party
        calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out
        of, the cross-examination; also called informally
        {re-direct}.
  
     Syn: Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny;
          inquisition; inspection; exploration.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reexamination
       n 1: (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the
            witness after that witness has been subject to
            cross-examination [syn: {redirect examination}]
       2: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of
          monitoring earlier treatment [syn: {follow-up}, {followup},
           {review}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RE-EXAMINATION. A second examination of a thing. A witness maybe reexamined, 
  in a trial at law, in the discretion of the court, and this is seldom 
  refused. In equity, it is a general rule that there can be no reexamination 
  of a witness, after he has once signed his name to the deposition, and 
  turned his back upon the commissioner or examiner; the reason of this is 
  that he may be tampered with or induced to retract or qualify what he has 
  sworn to. 1 Meriv. 130.