See Also: downstream(medicine)
Downstream(money)
Downstream(finance)
downstream(dictionary)
downstream(dictionary)
downstream processing(medicine)
Downstream Gate - Canoeing(gambling)

FORESEEABILITY (law) and downstream (medicine)


FORESEEABILITY (law)




A key issue in determining a persons liability. If a defendant could not reasonably have foreseen that someone might be hurt by his or her actions, then there may be no liability.





downstream (medicine)


downstream


1. <molecular biology> Portions of DNA or RNA that are more remote from the initiation sites and that will therefore be translated or transcribed later.

2. Shorthand term for things that happen at a late stage in a sequence of reactions.