medical examiner
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.
Origin of medical examiner
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How to use medical examiner in a sentence
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.
Before Eric Garner, There Was Michael Stewart: The Tragic Story of the Real-Life Radio Raheem | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter all, not every county medical examiner can spot CTE on microscopic slides.
Will the NCAA Let Ohio State’s Kosta Karageorge Die in Vain? | Robert Silverman | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe remains have also been sent to the chief medical examiner in Richmond for official forensic identification.
On U.VA Campus, Grief Mixes With Relief After Discovery of Body | Eric Leimkuhler | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen 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.
The Come Back | Carolyn WellsGive me an application blank and round up a medical examiner.
The Best Policy | Elliott FlowerIn an hour the medical examiner would come; all would in turn be examined on oath.
The Carleton Case | Ellery H. ClarkSid Parkes was small and slight, so small that he was almost rejected by the medical examiner.
Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles | Oliver HogueApproval of the medical examiner must be secured before registration is permitted.
College Teaching | Paul Klapper
British Dictionary definitions for medical examiner
mainly US 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
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