Letter F

Forensic medicine

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The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings.

Also called legal medicine.

A physician may be engaged in forensic (or legal) medicine; a lawyer with comparable interests is said to be engaged in medical jurisprudence.

See also: Forensic

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