medico-jurist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated: a physician or medical expert who applies medical knowledge to legal questions; a specialist in medical jurisprudence

   The court asked a medico-jurist to explain whether the wounds matched the witness's account.

Formed from medico-, the combining form of medical and ultimately Latin medicus ("physician"), + jurist, from Middle French juriste and Medieval Latin iurista, from Latin ius, iuris ("law"). The nineteenth-century compound is now usually expressed as medical jurist or forensic physician.

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