Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. A physician who examines cadavers on behalf of the government. n. A physician who examines cadavers on behalf of the government.
WordNet
n. a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes [syn: coroner]
Wikipedia
A medical examiner is a medically qualified officer whose duty is to investigate deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortem examinations, and in some jurisdictions to initiate inquests.
Usage examples of "medical examiner".
The associate medical examiner told the court something he had never said before, nor noted in his autopsy report: that while the boys’.
I told him it would have to be turned over to the medical examiner.
I have been the chief medical examiner of Virginia for more than a decade.
And now this intrigue over a missing manuscript that allegedly involves the medical examiner's office.
His customary time of arrival in the ID room of the medical examiner's office was seven-fifteen.
His customary time of arrival in the ID room of the medical examiners office was seven-fifteen.
Marino had an update that he would relay when I called, and Fielding said the Quinns had gone on the television news earlier this evening to say they were suing the medical examiner's office and me for violating the separation of church and state and causing irreparable emotional damage.
These three local funeral homes were on call twenty-four hours a day, and any medical examiner case in central Virginia should be handled by one of them.
I shot somebody and Bill was the medical examiner called to the scene.
Wedged between the windshield and the dash was her red medical examiner's Plate.