medical jurisprudence

American  

noun

1. forensic medicine.

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medical jurisprudence British  

noun

1. another name for forensic medicine

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Etymology

Origin of medical jurisprudence

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

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medical jurisprudence

An influential nineteenth-century manual on medical jurisprudence cited the saying “A medical man, when he sees a dead body, should notice everything.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Go to the best books of medical jurisprudence, go to the best authorities on psychical deviations from the normal type.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds

But it needed no course in medical jurisprudence to tell me what those marks were—the marks of teeth, and of a woman's teeth.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

As the subject is considered to have a bearing on medical jurisprudence and ethnology as well, this report is a suitable vehicle for responding to the demand.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

"Does medical jurisprudence provide nothing against these infringements?" said Mr. Hackbutt, with a disinterested desire to offer his lights.

From Middlemarch by George Eliot