medical examiner

noun

1. 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.
2. a physician retained by an insurance company, industrial firm, or the like, to give medical examinations to its clients or employees.

medical examiner

noun

1. See coroner
   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
2. a physician who carries out medical examinations

Word History and Origins

Origin of medical examiner¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

She said the medical examiner had ruled out that Oakes’s death was caused by head trauma.

From Washington Post

In December, the family sued the officers, the state medical examiner, the three towns where the officers served and the two police chiefs involved in the case.

From Washington Post

As law enforcement, medical examiners and health-care workers focused on responding to covid-19 cases, some incidents may have not been fully investigated or determined to have been shark attacks.

From Washington Post

ProPublica reported that over the summer in Houston, medical examiners saw a spike in the number of people found dead in their homes.

From Vox

What has shocked medical examiners in Chicago is the age range — from a 57-year-old deputy police chief to a 9-year-old child.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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