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  • Forensic Medicine

Forensic Medicine(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Forensic Medicine
Used for/see from:
  • n: Medicine, Forensic
  • n: Medicine, Legal
  • Legal Medicine

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 other specific forensic terms are also available

The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.

65; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74; was heading 1963-64

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