- medical examiner
- noun Date: 1877 a public officer who conducts autopsies on bodies to find the cause of death
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
medical examiner
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medical examiner — med·i·cal examiner n: a public officer who determines the necessity of and conducts autopsies to find the cause of death Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. medical examiner … Law dictionary
medical examiner — medical examiners 1) N COUNT A medical examiner is a medical expert who is responsible for investigating the deaths of people who have died in a sudden, violent, or unusual way. [AM] 2) N COUNT A medical examiner is a doctor whose job is to… … English dictionary
medical examiner — n 1) a usu. appointed public officer with duties similar to those of a coroner but who is required to have specific medical training (as in pathology) and is qualified to conduct medical examinations and autopsies 2) a physician employed to make… … Medical dictionary
medical examiner — n. 1. a coroner or similar public officer 2. a physician who performs medical examinations, as of applicants for life insurance … English World dictionary
Medical examiner — A medical examiner is a medically qualified government 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… … Wikipedia
medical examiner — noun a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes • Syn: ↑coroner • Hypernyms: ↑investigator * * * noun 1. : a usually appointed public officer who must be a person trained in medicine and whose functions are… … Useful english dictionary
medical examiner — Public officer charged with responsibility of investigating all sudden, unexplained, unnatural or suspicious deaths reported to him, including the performance of autopsies and assisting the state in criminal homicide cases. Term may also include… … Black's law dictionary
medical examiner — Public officer charged with responsibility of investigating all sudden, unexplained, unnatural or suspicious deaths reported to him, including the performance of autopsies and assisting the state in criminal homicide cases. Term may also include… … Black's law dictionary
medical examiner — medical ex aminer n AmE a doctor who examines dead people s bodies in order to find out how they died, especially if they died in a sudden or unusual way … Dictionary of contemporary English
medical examiner — medical ex aminer noun count AMERICAN a doctor whose job is to find out the cause of death in people who may not have died of natural causes … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
medical examiner — Synonyms and related words: Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, allopath, allopathist, attending physician, autopsy, coroner, country doctor, croaker, doc, doctor, family doctor, general practitioner, house physician, inquest, intern, leech, medical… … Moby Thesaurus
