NOUN
- a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
How To Use medical examiner In A Sentence
- In Pennsylvania government functions done elsewhere by appointed department heads are performed by elected officials, including county coroner (who doesn't have to be a licensed medical examiner) and prothonotary or chief notary.
- But medical examiners have found injuries consistent with her story. Times, Sunday Times
- Medical examiners frequently perform autopsies if a death is deemed suspicious or unexplained.
- A medical examiner has listed the deaths as homicides.
- JEAN CASAREZ, COURT TV: The medical examiner says that she was taking a liquid sleeping medication called chloral hydrate in combination with anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs that she was taking. CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2007
- His fiefdom was the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, hers the Virginia medical examiner's system. Predator
- DANIEL SPITZ, MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: You know the body was so decomposed that common sense may tell you that the duct tape were put on, you know, in an ante-mortem fashion, but the reality is that there ` s nothing forensically that would allow you to distinguish whether the duct tape was put on before or after death. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008
- The cause of death was due to cardiac arrhythmia due to mitral valve prolapse, which is a condition in which the heart valve does not close properly, said Ellen Borakove, director of the public affairs for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City. News - chicagotribune.com
- Three different teams, 31 on each team, medical examiners, morticians on those teams, they will locate the bodies.
- Dr. Anjali Mukherjee spent most of her time in the morgue, not just because she was the county medical examiner but also because when she ventured abovestairs at the hospital, she was continually mistaken for a med student or, worse, a candy striper. The Tenth Circle