legal medicine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Owing to its exceeding toxic nature, the smallness of the dose required to produce death, and the lack of tests for recognition, aconitin possesses rather more interest in legal medicine than most other poisons.
From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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