medical examiner

noun

a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
a physician retained by an insurance company, industrial firm, or the like, to give medical examinations to its clients or employees.

medical examiner

a medical expert, usually a physician, employed by a state or local government to determine the cause of sudden death in cases of suspected violence, suicide, etc Compare coroner
a physician who carries out medical examinations

First recorded in 1840–50

But the medical examiner reported that Brinsley had eaten nothing at all.

New York medical examiner Dr. Elliott Gross instead ruled that he died of heart failure.

After all, not every county medical examiner can spot CTE on microscopic slides.

The remains have also been sent to the chief medical examiner in Richmond for official forensic identification.

When the body of Johnson was exhumed, the medical examiner was acutely chagrined when six .22 caliber rounds were removed from it.

He rather liked the Medical Examiner, but he did not at all admire detective Weston or his ways.

Give me an application blank and round up a medical examiner.

In an hour the medical examiner would come; all would in turn be examined on oath.

Sid Parkes was small and slight, so small that he was almost rejected by the medical examiner.

Approval of the Medical Examiner must be secured before registration is permitted.

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