Medical Dictionary

homicide

noun ho·mi·cide \ˈhäm-ə-ˌsīd, ˈhō-mə-\

Medical Definition of HOMICIDE

1
:  a person who kills another
2
:  a killing of one human being by another—compare genocide

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