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medical examiner

n 1  :  a usu. appointed public officer who must be a person trained in medicine and whose functions are to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons dead by violence or suicide or under circumstances suggesting crime, to investigate the cause of their deaths, and sometimes to initiate inquests  2  :  a physician employed to make medical examinations (as of applicants for military service or of claimants of workers' compensation)  3  :  a physician appointed to examine and license candidates for the practice of medicine in a political jurisdiction (as a state) .
 
 

 
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