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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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, reexamination]

2. a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment;
[syn: follow-up, followup, reexamination, review]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reexamination \Re`ex*am`i*na"tion\ (-?*n?"sh?n), n. A repeated examination. See under Examination. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, reexamination] 2: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment [syn: follow-up, followup, reexamination, review]
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

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.