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habeas corpus

a writ requiring a court to determine whether there is sufficient cause to hold someone in a correctional or other facility (Latin, literally: “you may have the body”). In the context of forensic psychology, it is typically used to determine whether confinement to a mental institution has been carried out with due process.

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drug tolerance

drug tolerance

see tolerance.