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legal medicine

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noun

  1. another name for forensic medicine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“I should never be put in that impossible position to choose between benefits and the legal medicine I use.”

From Seattle Times May 29, 2024

Identifications of deteriorated remains are complex and the unit depends on the overtaxed legal medicine department for forensic work.

From Reuters Apr. 19, 2023

An expert in forensic and legal medicine told the court he did not think that Mr Smith's method of restraint, as a member of the public with no training, was inappropriate.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2022

She founded a department of legal medicine at Harvard and a weeklong seminar, still held annually in Baltimore, using the dioramas to teach the art of observation and the science of crime scene analysis.

From National Geographic Aug. 8, 2016

The opportunity for this is given in any text-book on legal medicine, forensic psychopathology, and criminal psychology.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

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