medicolegal

adjective

med·​i·​co·​le·​gal ˌme-di-kō-ˈlē-gəl How to pronounce medicolegal (audio)
: of or relating to both medicine and law

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His work aims to understand and minimize human error in forensic science and medicolegal decision-making. — Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024 Medical examiners and coroners are both known as medicolegal death investigators, a term Idaho applies to people who make formal inquiries or examinations to determine the cause and manner of a person’s death. — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 20 May 2026 Portland Police and a Multnomah County medicolegal death investigator led the investigation. — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 Now, Barbara Butcher, a medicolegal death investigator and the host of Oxygen’s The Death Investigator, has revealed her theory about what happened. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for medicolegal

Word History

Etymology

New Latin medicolegalis, from Latin medicus medical + -o- + legalis legal

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of medicolegal was in 1835

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medicolegal

adjective
med·​i·​co·​le·​gal ˌmed-i-kō-ˈlē-gəl How to pronounce medicolegal (audio)
: of or relating to both medicine and law
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