Definition of Medicolegal

1. Adjective. Pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information).

Partainyms: Law, Medicine

Definition of Medicolegal

1. a. Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

Definition of Medicolegal

1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, both medicine and law. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Medicolegal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Medicolegal

1. Relating to both medicine and the law. See: forensic medicine. Origin: medico-+ L. Legalis, legal (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicolegal

medicine men
medicine shield
medicine show
medicine shows
medicined
medicinelike
medicines
medicining
medicins
medico
medico-
medicobiologic
medicochirurgical
medicolegal (current term)
medicolegally
medicomechanical
medicommissure
medicommissures
medicophysical
medicopsychology
medicornu
medicornua
medicos
medicotechnical
medicotechnological
medics
mediety
medieval

Literary usage of Medicolegal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crime Or Custom?: Violence Against Women in Pakistan by Samya Burney, Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"While the police are required to escort the victim to the medicolegal center in ... Furthermore, medicolegal examinations of sexual assault victims at state ..."

2. Guatemala, Getting Away with Murder: An Americas Watch and Physicians for by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1991)
"C. Other Assistance for medicolegal Investigations During our visit to Guatemala ... D. The medicolegal System After more than 30 years of almost continuous ..."

3. A Text-book of legal medicine by Frank Winthrop Draper (1905)
"A medicolegal AUTOPSY. THE subject of this closing chapter is the scope, purpose, and details of a medicolegal examination of the dead human body. ..."

4. Post-mortem pathology by Henry Ware Cattell (1905)
"CHAPTER XXVII THE PRUSSIAN REGULATIONS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OK AUTOPSIES IN medicolegal CASES THE Prussian regulations governing the performance of ..."

5. Unquiet Graves: The Search for the Disappeared in Iraqi Kurdistan by Eric Stover, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.), Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"In most medicolegal investigations of skeletal remains, the forensic anthropologist sets out to establish the identity of the deceased and to determine the ..."

6. A Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Walter Stanley Haines (1904)
"medicolegal EXAMINATION OF SEMINAL STAINS. THE recognition of a seminal stain ... naturally, of groat medicolegal importance in eases of alleged rape or ..."

7. Industrial Medicine and Surgery by Harry Edgar Mock (1919)
"CHAPTER XLIV OTHER TRAUMATISMS WITH medicolegal ASPECTS With the tendency of large corporations to depend more and more on the decisions and statements of ..."

8. Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards by Sharyl J. Nass, John Ball (2005)
"medicolegal LIABILITY AND THE QUALITY OF CARE As noted in Chapter 4, ... The escalation of medicolegal costs could perhaps be contained through medical ..."

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