medical record
A file kept for each patient, maintained by the hospital, clinical, or medical provider that documents the patient’s problems, diagnostic procedures, treatment and outcome.
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medicalization of FGM
Situations in which the procedure (including re-infibulation) is practiced by any category of health-care provider, whether in a public or a private clinic, at home or elsewhere, at any point in time in a woman’s life.
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medicolegal
Of, relating to, or concerned with medicine and law; pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine.
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medicolegal
Pertaining to medicine and law.
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medicolegal authority
The medical examiner, coroner or other office responsible for medicolegal death investigation in a given jurisdiction.
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medicolegal death investigation
A formal inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a human being; investigative information is considered with autopsy findings and adjunctive studies (if performed) to determine the cause and manner of death.
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medicolegal death investigation office
Physical location of an agency (usually a medical examiner or coroner office) with the authority to perform medicolegal death investigations.
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Megan’s Law
A federal law that requires sex offenders to be listed in a publically available registry that identifies the names, addresses, and basic offense information of individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses.
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