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FORENSIC MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forensic medicine mean? 

FORENSIC MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun FORENSIC MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposesplay

  Familiarity information: FORENSIC MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FORENSIC MEDICINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

forensic medicine; forensic pathology

Context example:

forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer

Hypernyms ("forensic medicine" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)


 Context examples 


In forensic medicine, the probes used are "core" sequences specific for simple tandem-repetitive sequences (minisatellite repeats or VNTRs).

(DNA Fingerprinting, NCI Thesaurus)



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