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Descriptor English: Forensic Medicine
Descriptor Spanish: Medicina Legal
Descriptor medicina forense
Entry term(s) medicina legal
Scope note: Aplicación del conocimiento médico a cuestiones legales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicina Legal
Descriptor French: Médecine légale
Entry term(s): Legal Medicine
Medicine, Forensic
Medicine, Legal
Tree number(s): H02.403.330
I01.198.780.937
SP9.131.543
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005554
Scope note: The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.
Annotation: 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 DF: FORENSIC MED
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 65; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74; was heading 1963-64
Online Note: use FORENSIC MEDICINE & FORENSIC DENTISTRY to search CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION 1966-74
History Note: 65; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74; was heading 1963-64
Entry Version: FORENSIC MED
Related: DNA Contamination MeSH
Law Enforcement MeSH
DeCS ID: 5688
Unique ID: D005554
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Forensic Medicine - Preferred
Concept UI M0008748
Scope note The application of medical knowledge to questions of law.
Preferred term Forensic Medicine
Entry term(s) Medicine, Forensic
Medicine, Legal - Broader
Concept UI M0008749
Preferred term Medicine, Legal
Entry term(s) Legal Medicine



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