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| Questioned Document Examiner (QD) |
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| one who analyzes documents professionally, often for investigative purposes |
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| ridge endings, bifurcations, enclosures, and other ridge details which, if present in both of two fingerprints being compared, must match for their common origin to be established |
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| the science dealing with properties and actions of serums in blood; also known as "blood analysis" |
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| a liquid substance capable of dissolving or dispersing one or more sbustances |
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| in handwriting analysis, material whose source and origin are knoan and used for comparative purposes |
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| a technique used to visualize latent fingerprints on nonporous surfaces. |
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| the study of poisons anddrugs and theif effects on human and animal populations |
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| material deposited at a crime or accident scene that can only be detected through a deliberated-processing procedure. |
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| the path of an object as it moves through space, usually referring in the forensic context to a bullet or other projectile. |
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