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medico-legal

medico-legal is the alternative form of medicolegal.

Meaning of medicolegal

Adjective

medicolegal (not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to, both medicine and law, as for example with the legal implications of a medical decision (such as when to stop attempting resuscitation, or when not to prescribe a certain medication or surgery.

Questions about medico-legal

What is medico-legal the alternative form of?
Medico-legal is the alternative form of medicolegal.

Words near medico-legal in the dictionary

  1. medick
  2. medicks
  3. medicle
  4. medico
  5. medico-
  6. medico-legal
  7. medicoadministrative
  8. medicobiological
  9. medicobotanical
  10. medicocentric
  11. medicochirurgic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medico-legal (page history and authors); medicolegal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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