Definition: The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.
for crime or identification: differentiate from JURISPRUDENCE, usually civil suits; for human identification of skeletal remains HUMAN IDENTIFICATION see FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY is available; for human identification by teeth see FORENSIC DENTISTRY; note o
See AlsoDNA Contamination; Law Enforcement ExamplesForensic Genetics; Forensic Pathology
Other names Legal Medicine; Medicine, Legal; Medicine, Forensic