forensic medicine

noun

1. the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.

forensic medicine

noun

1. Also called: medical jurisprudence.  legal medicine. the applied use of medical knowledge or practice, esp pathology, to the purposes of the law, as in determining the cause of death

forensic medicine

1. The branch of medicine that interprets or establishes the medical facts in civil or criminal law cases.

Word History and Origins

Origin of forensic medicine¹

First recorded in 1835–45