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.]
Some of the causes of malabsorption include: 1  AIDS and HIV. 2  Biliary atresia. 3  Celiac disease. 4  Certain medications (cholestyramine, tetracycline, some antacids, some medications used to treat obesity, colchicine, acarbose, phenytoin). 5  Certain types of cancer (lymphoma, pancreatic cancer, gastrinomas).