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Forensic medicine

Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, a. [L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See Forum.] Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.

Forensic medicine, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law.

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forensic medicine

n. the branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposes; "forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer" [syn: forensic pathology]

Usage examples of "forensic medicine".

I can't know for a fact I will ever practice forensic medicine again.

Fielding is disenchanted with forensic medicine and has been for several years.

At the Law Faculty at the university you had lectures on forensic medicine and were introduced to the work of Professor Andreev.

The way Clifford Ring made it sound, I was an arrogant, gun-slinging wild woman who, when it came to forensic medicine, didn't know her ass from a hole in the ground.

According to the date on a plaque at the entrance, the mortuary was more than a hundred years old, and I thought about how grim it would have been to practice forensic medicine in those days.

The room was a maze of papers and professional journals and books on forensic medicine and motorcycle magazines.

She has a computer at home that's connected to the morgue's system - I think it covers the whole Division of Forensic Medicine in the Department of Health.

The Department of Pathology's Forensic Medicine Unit, divided in loyalties between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Law, had its offices within the University Medical School in Teviot Place.

Professor Busuttil, Regius Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Since there was no requirement for formal training in forensic medicine, all coroner's cases were autopsied by a forensic pathologist under contract to the county.

Daughter Myra's done well, if a bit on the morbid sideshe's a medical doctor but her specialty is in forensic medicine.