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Forensic interviewing
Forensic interviewing is structured, legally defensible questioning of victims or witnesses by specially trained professionals, using non-leading, open-ended prompts to gather reliable evidence about alleged abuse, exploitation, or violence.
Forensic linguistics
Forensic linguistics applies linguistic analysis to legal and investigative contexts. Coined by Jan Svartvik in his 1968 Evans Statements study; spans authorship attribution, courtroom discourse, and legal text analysis, now increasingly machine-learning driven.
Forensic pathology
Forensic pathology: medical specialty applying pathology to legal questions via medicolegal autopsies certifying cause and manner of death; also called legal medicine; faces critical US and UK workforce shortages.
Forensic photography
Forensic photography is the photographic documentation of crime scenes, evidence, and injuries for criminal investigation and courts, governed by protocols that preserve accuracy and chain of custody.
Forensic psychiatry
Forensic psychiatry: medical subspecialty applying psychiatric expertise to legal questions (competency, criminal responsibility, risk). Key figures Isaac Ray, Alan Stone; defined by AAPL 2005; marked by dual clinical-forensic roles and bias concerns.
Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology is the application of psychology to law and legal systems, recognized as an APA specialty in 2001, centered on psychological assessment of people involved with the legal system.
Forensic science
Forensic science is the application of scientific methods to legal questions, examining evidence such as DNA, fingerprints, and trace materials to identify offenders or exonerate innocent suspects.
Forensic toxicology
Forensic toxicology applies toxicology to legal questions, identifying and quantitating drugs and poisons in biological specimens for suspicious deaths, drug-facilitated crimes, and impaired driving cases.
Foreplay
Foreplay is sexual activity such as kissing, touching, and caressing before or as preparation for intercourse; it increases arousal and lubrication, raises consent and communication considerations, and is debated in sexual-script research.
Forequarter amputation
Forequarter amputation, also called interscapulothoracic amputation, is the surgical removal of the entire upper limb with the scapula and clavicle, now used mainly for malignant tumors.
Forerunner Builders
Forerunner Builders is a series of venture capital fund partnerships run through Forerunner Ventures, the San Francisco consumer-focused firm founded by Kirsten Green, with funds formed between 2019 and 2021.
Forerunner Partners
Forerunner Partners, also known as Forerunner Ventures, is a San Francisco consumer-focused venture capital firm founded by Kirsten Green in 2012 that manages roughly $3 billion.
ForeScout
Forescout Technologies, Inc. is a network security company providing agentless device visibility and network access control, founded in Israel in 2000 and based in San Jose, California.
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which writers plant hints or warnings about later plot developments, directly or indirectly. Covers Chekhov's gun, red herrings, flash-forward contrast, and examples from Romeo and Juliet and Frankenstein.
Foreshock (plasma physics)
In plasma physics, a foreshock is the region upstream of a collisionless shock wave that is populated by particles reflected or leaked from the shock, streaming back upstream.
Foreskin
Foreskin (prepuce): the moveable fold of skin and mucosa covering the penis glans and meatus; non-retractable in infancy, retractable in 99% of boys by 17; distinct from phimosis and removed by circumcision.
Foreskin fibroblast
Foreskin fibroblast, also called human foreskin fibroblast (HFF, FSK) or the BJ line ATCC CRL-2522: primary dermal fibroblasts from neonatal foreskin, used in toxicology, aging, and tissue engineering research; BJ-5ta is the hTERT-immortalized derivative.
Foreskin restoration
Foreskin restoration, also called uncircumcision or decircumcision, recreates glans coverage after circumcision via nonsurgical tissue expansion or surgical skin grafts; described by Celsus in the 1st century CE, it takes years nonsurgically and lacks FDA-approved devices.
Foreskin's Lament
Foreskin's Lament is a landmark 1980 New Zealand play by Greg McGee, set in a rugby team's dressing shed and read as an analysis of New Zealand society.
Forest
Forest: land with trees, FAO-defined as over 0.5 ha with more than 10 percent canopy cover and trees able to reach 5 m. Covers 4.14 billion hectares, about 32 percent of land, and holds most terrestrial carbon.
Forest (2025 film)
Forest (ಫಾರೆಸ್ಟ್) is a 2025 Kannada comedy thriller directed by Chandra Mohan, starring Chikkanna, Gurunandan, and Rangayana Raghu, about villagers hunting treasure guarded by a ghost; released 24 January 2025, later on Prime Video.
Forest Baskett
Forest Baskett is an American venture capitalist and computer architect who joined New Enterprise Associates in 1999 after serving as Silicon Graphics' chief technology officer.
Forest bathing
Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is a Japanese preventive practice, coined in 1982, of spending unhurried sensory time in forests to reduce stress and improve well-being.
Forest Brothers
The Forest Brothers (metsavennad, meža brāļi, miško broliai) were Baltic guerrillas who resisted the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from 1944 into the 1950s.
Forest City, North Carolina
Forest City, North Carolina: town in Rutherford County, incorporated as Burnt Chimney in 1877, renamed 1887 for Forest Davis; textile mill town, Florence Mill brownfield redevelopment, and Meta data center; 2020 population 7,377.
Forest Conservation Act, 1980
The Forest Conservation Act, 1980, also known as Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, is an Indian central statute that requires Central Government approval before non-forest land use.
Forest ecology
Forest ecology examines how wooded ecosystems function across temperate, boreal, and tropical forests, studying interacting species, disturbance and succession, nutrient cycling, and conservation, and underpinning sustainable forest management.
Forest ecosystem
A forest ecosystem is an ecological system whose dominant element is trees, functioning through energy flow and the cycling of nutrients between organisms, soil, water, and atmosphere.
Forest Gate
Forest Gate is a district in the London Borough of Newham, east London, E7 postcode, named after a gate to Epping Forest's Wanstead Flats; Victorian railway suburb, Elizabeth line station, Woodgrange Estate conservation area.
Forest Green Rovers F.C.
Forest Green Rovers F.C., English club founded 1889 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire; owned by Dale Vince since 2010. First vegan football club (2015) and first UN-certified carbon-neutral football club; League Two champions 2022, now in the National League.