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.]
The definition of malaise is a general feeling of being tired or under the weather. An example of malaise is when you start to get a cold and are just feeling kind of yucky. malaise. malaise. A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness.