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legal medicine

British  

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

Forero, a former official at legal medicine, echoed previous unit demands for that department to receive more government support to expand nationally and increase its technical capacity.

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 sanitary surveillance is under the charge of three medical inspectors; not only are the autopsies here frequent, but there are also held many conferences in legal medicine, and there is a laboratory of toxicology.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

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