Terms Used In Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 74 > Subchapter I - Expert Witnesses

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Court: means any federal or state court. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care: means any act or treatment performed or furnished, or that should have been performed or furnished, by any health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Health care liability claim: means a cause of action against a health care provider or physician for treatment, lack of treatment, or other claimed departure from accepted standards of medical care, or health care, or safety or professional or administrative services directly related to health care, which proximately results in injury to or death of a claimant, whether the claimant's claim or cause of action sounds in tort or contract. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Health care provider: means any person, partnership, professional association, corporation, facility, or institution duly licensed, certified, registered, or chartered by the State of Texas to provide health care, including:
  (i) a registered nurse;
  (ii) a dentist;
  (iii) a podiatrist;
  (iv) a pharmacist;
  (v) a chiropractor;
  (vi) an optometrist;
  (vii) a health care institution; or
  (viii) a health care collaborative certified under Chapter 848, Insurance Code. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Medical care: means any act defined as practicing medicine under § 151. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Physician: means :
  (A) an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state;
  (B) a professional association organized under the Texas Professional Association Act (Article 1528f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) by an individual physician or group of physicians;
  (C) a partnership or limited liability partnership formed by a group of physicians;
  (D) a nonprofit health corporation certified under § 162. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.