forensic medicine

noun

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

forensic medicine

noun

1. 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 /

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

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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