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forensic medicine
noun
- the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
forensic medicine
noun
- the applied use of medical knowledge or practice, esp pathology, to the purposes of the law, as in determining the cause of death Also calledmedical jurisprudencelegal medicine
forensic medicine
/ fə-rĕn′sĭk /
- The branch of medicine that interprets or establishes the medical facts in civil or criminal law cases.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of forensic medicine1
First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences
One is the common ignorance of legal or forensic medicine among the members of the profession.
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Writers on forensic medicine take the next place in the row of literary witnesses.
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A method giving conclusive results has now been discovered, and is used in forensic medicine.
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The method of cryoscopy is also of considerable service in forensic medicine.
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