medicolegal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of medicolegal
Example Sentences
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Police, doctors and medico-legal services are working together to support victims.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022
Everyone in the medico-legal community — forensic scientists and technicians, DNA analysts, potential jurors, judges and lawyers for both the prosecution and defence— must know and understand the potential for mistakes.
From Nature • Oct. 27, 2015
The minister replied, "In such complaints, the victim's version is given utmost importance. "And as it's a medico-legal case, the test reports are strictly confidential.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2014
This is a bizarre situation to arise in medicine, a discipline where everything is supposed to be based on evidence, and where everyday practice is bound up in medico-legal anxiety.
From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2013
Third—The establishment in the medical department of the University of California of a Chair of State Medicine for the benefit of those who desire to fit themselves for service in medico-legal investigations.
From Medical experts: Investigation of Insanity by Juries by Thorne, W. S.
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