Medicine plus another field.
Latin medicus, physician.
The term medicolegal (also medico-legal) refers to the legal aspects of the practice of medicine; medico-social (less often medicosocial) relates to the social issues surrounding medicine; medico-economic refers to the economic implications and costs of medical provision; medico-chirurgical (Latin chirurgia, surgery) indicates matters relating both to medicine and to surgery.
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