MEDICOLEGAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

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