forensic pathology

1. 1.

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

   “forensic pathology provided the evidence that convicted the murderer”

   Synonymsforensic medicine

   Broadermedicine

Questions about forensic pathology

What does forensic pathology mean?

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

What is another word for forensic pathology?

Close synonyms include forensic medicine. 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 pathology a common word?

forensic pathology 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.