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coroner

/kawr-uh-ner, kor-/US // ˈkɔr ə nər, ˈkɒr- //UK // (ˈkɒrənə) //

验尸官,验收官,验收员,法医

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an officer, as of a county or municipality, whose chief function is to investigate by inquest, as before a jury, any death not clearly resulting from natural causes.

Examples

  • The coroner said it was probably quick—a heart attack, maybe.

  • Lisa Lapointe, the province’s chief coroner, said in a statement last week that the extreme heat probably was “a significant contributing factor” in the increased number of deaths.

  • Thirteen of the 20 died in King County, which includes Seattle, the county coroner said.

  • That’s why Greene and others in his field examine how many people die in a given area during an unusually hot period, as opposed to just looking at those deaths that coroners or medical examiners code as related to hyperthermia.

  • CBP does not maintain a single, centralized tally of exposure deaths and human remains recovered, because the majority of forensic services are handled by county sheriffs and coroners in border districts.

  • Even the coroner determined that the cause of death was "homicide."

  • Garner was pronounced dead an hour later, and the city coroner ruled his death a homicide.

  • The coroner would also note the tiny hemorrhages that accompany strangulation.

  • The coroner said the call had been "clearly pressing on her mind" but that she had had "appropriate" support from the hospital.

  • At last month's inquest, Coroner Fiona Wilcox concluded Mrs Saldanha had taken her own life.

  • "One of the most extraordinary cases I have ever met with," the doctor told the coroner at the inquest.

  • "There was in the evidence given before the coroner a suggestion that the captain had dined somewhere in secret," he said.

  • A woman having died suddenly at Waterford, the Coroner had, according to law, ordered an inquest.

  • Coroner Bogle demanded that the body should be viewed officially before the man-hunt should begin.

  • Scattergood stepped forward as the coroner turned the face up to the light of the sun.