Occupation or Discipline
forensic medicine Audio
fo·ren·sic med·i·cine
Subclass of:
Medicine
Definitions related to forensic medicine:
  • Branch of medicine that interprets or establishes the medical facts in civil or criminal law cases.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The application of medical knowledge to questions of law; research, reports and testimony in court by experts in medical science to assist in determining a legal question.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Forensic medicine, the science that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal questions. The use of medical testimony in law cases predates by more than 1,000 years the first systematic presentation of the subject by the Italian Fortunatus Fidelis in 1598. Forensic medicine was...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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