medicine

medicine
The science and art dealing with the prevention, cure and alleviation of diseases; in a narrower sense that part of the science and art of restoring and preserving health which is the province of the physician as distinguished from the surgeon and obstetrician. Burke v. Kansas State Osteopathic Ass'n, C.C.A.Kan., Ill F.2d 250, 253.
@ forensic medicine
Another name for medical jurisprudence.
+ forensic medicine
That science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purposes of the law; hence its limits are, on the one hand, the requirements of the law, and, on the other, the whole range of medicine. Anatomy, physiology, medicine, surgery, chemistry, physics, and botany lend their aid as necessity arises; and in some cases all these branches of science are required to enable a court of law to arrive at a proper conclusion on a contested question affecting life or property
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Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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