medicolegal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medicolegal
Example Sentences
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I had no leads for the medicolegal death investigator's cold case, no DNA for the anthropologist to cross-reference against hers.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
Kimberly DiLeo, the county’s chief medicolegal death investigator, led efforts to draft the ordinance after she unsuccessfully tried to prevent the Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Tracy Spry, a medicolegal autopsy coordinator for Wake Forest’s autopsy pathology department, said a direct cause of death was not identified at autopsy, thus his death certificate was listed as ‘pending’ upon completion.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
As a medicolegal death investigator, Worrell serves as “the eyes, ears, and nose,” as she puts it, of the team that determines cause and manner of death for the official record.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
Then at once in rebuttal were other experts, equally pleased with themselves, humorously disposing of psychical epilepsy, affecting to regard it as a medicolegal myth.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
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