Medical Definition of Legal medicine. Legal medicine: The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal proceedings. Legal medicine is also called forensic medicine. A physician may be engaged in legal (or forensic) medicine while a lawyer with identical interests is said to be in medical jurisprudence.
An unwholesome condition: the malady of discontent. [Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade, sick, from Latin male habitus, in poor condition : male, badly; see mel- in Indo-European roots + habitus, past participle of habÄre, to hold; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.]
1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest. 2. a. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased: morbid changes in tissues. b. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: a morbid fear of heights.