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1. (n.) medical examiner
a government official who performs autopsies of bodies to determine the cause of death.
2. medical examiner
a physician retained by an insurance company, industrial firm, or the like, to give medical examinations to its clients or employees.
Etymology: (1535–45; < L medicāmentum=medicā(rī) to cure +-mentum -ment . See medicate)
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1. (noun) coroner, medical examiner
a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
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