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privileged

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication.

Witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.


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by alextemplet
Fri May 15, 2009 11:44 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Why are people so in love with tetrapods?
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:48 pm
 
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The Fiber Disease

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Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:54 pm
 
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Topic: The Fiber Disease
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by MrMistery
Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:10 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: glucose transporter
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