forensic medicine

1. 1.

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

   “forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer”

   Synonymsforensic pathology

   Broadermedicine

Questions about forensic medicine

What does forensic medicine mean?

forensic medicine means "the branch of medical science that uses medical knowledge for legal purposes".

What is another word for forensic medicine?

Close synonyms include forensic pathology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forensic medicine a common word?

forensic medicine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.