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
- : 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.

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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.