Wiktionary
a. Of, or pertaining to, both medicine and law.
WordNet
adj. pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information)
Wikipedia
Medicolegal is something that involves both medical and legal aspects, mainly:
- Medical jurisprudence, a branch of medicine
- Medical law, a branch of law
Medico-Legal Case : can be defined as a case of injury or ailment, etc., in which investigations by the law-enforcing agencies are essential to fix the responsibility regarding the causation of the injury or ailment. In simple language it is a medical case with legal implications for the attending doctor where the attending doctor, after eliciting history and examining the patient, thinks that some investigation by law enforcement agencies is essential . Or a legal case requiring medical expertise when brought by the police for examination.
"Any case of Injury or ailment where some criminality is involved is called a Medico-Legal Case (MLC)".
Usage examples of "medicolegal".
I had been working as a medicolegal investigator and identification expert since 1989, when Dr.
In that apartment, I had been the subject matter expert, and had not only done my job but also certified to myself that I was ready to go on to the next level of medicolegal investigation, to become an MLI-II.
I was not going to achieve my earlier goal of becoming director of medicolegal investigations.
Pierre LaManche, the chef de service for the medicolegal section at the crime lab in Montreal.
As a private consultant, she is limited by the medicolegal information presented to her, and the absence of pertinent findingsor the presence of incorrect findingsis intolerable.
Moers, one of the specialists of the Technical Branch, to meet him at the Medicolegal Institute.
Compartment 17 of the Medicolegal Institute, where the caretaker had put him.
Harvey found 5 in the medicolegal returns submitted by the Civil Surgeons of the Bengal Presidency during the years 1870-71-72.
Filippi contributes an extensive paper on the medicolegal aspect of a case of intrauterine fracture of the os cranium.
Devilliers considers this question from both the obstetric and medicolegal points of view.
He also adds that this fact would be of great medicolegal value in the early arrest of those charged with rape.