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.]
(mÄ-lÄz'), 1  A feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an out-of-sorts feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. [ 2 Fr. 3  A feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an out of sorts feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. malaise. A vague general term for feeling unwell. Although included in the list of symptoms of most diseases, the term has no diagnostic value.