A government official, usually appointed, who has a thorough medical knowledge and whose function is to perform an autopsy on bodies dead from violence, suicide, crime, etc , and to investigate circumstances of death
Death investigation jurisdictions typically use either a medical examiner system or a coroner system Most medical examiners are licensed physicians or forensic pathologists, and are generally appointed (rather than elected) They may have jurisdiction over a county, district, or entire state (See also Coroner and Jurisdiction )
A medical examiner is a doctor whose job is to examine people, for example when they apply for a job or for health insurance. a doctor who examines dead people's bodies in order to find out how they died, especially if they died in a sudden or unusual way