medical examiner

1. 1.

   a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes

   Synonymscoroner

   Broaderinvestigator

Questions about medical examiner

What does medical examiner mean?

medical examiner means "a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes".

What is another word for medical examiner?

Close synonyms include coroner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medical examiner a common word?

medical examiner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.