examination

plural examinations

1. countableuncountableThe act of examining.

   In a child with infant dyschezia, physical examination and stool examination are normal.

   2002, Paul Hyman, “Infant Dyschezia: Looking out for Number Two”, in International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, number 823

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   [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

   2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020

   The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).

   2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173

2. countableuncountableParticularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
3. countableuncountableeducationA formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.
4. countableuncountableInterrogation, particularly by a lawyer in court or during discovery.