coroner
someone who examines how a person has died
TRANSLATION
coroner = der Rechtsmediziner --- GOOGLE INDEX coroner: approximately 8,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Two deaths at a Nottingham hospital may in part be down to a pillow used during operations, a CORONER has found.
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LA County doubles CORONER'S maximum fee for handling bodies
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(BBC News)
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LA County doubles CORONER'S maximum fee for handling bodies
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coroner
noun
- an official who examines the reasons for a person's death, especially if it was violent or unexpected
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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In a murder trial, the lawyer for the defendant was questioning the coroner:
Lawyer: Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the pulse?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: Did you listen to the heart?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: Did you check for breathing?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren't sure the man was dead, were you?
Coroner: Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there practising law somewhere.
Etymology: from the late 12th century Anglo-French "curuner" and from the Latin "custos placitorum coronae", originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family (from the Latin corona, literally crown). The duties of the office gradually narrowed and by the 17th century the chief function was to determine the cause of death in cases that were obviously not natural.
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SYNONYMS
medical examiner, forensics examiner
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The job of a coroner is not as glamorous as they make it out to be on television."
noun
- an official who examines the reasons for a person's death, especially if it was violent or unexpected
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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In a murder trial, the lawyer for the defendant was questioning the coroner:
Lawyer: Before you signed the death certificate, had you taken the pulse?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: Did you listen to the heart?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: Did you check for breathing?
Coroner: No.
Lawyer: So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren't sure the man was dead, were you?
Coroner: Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there practising law somewhere.
Etymology: from the late 12th century Anglo-French "curuner" and from the Latin "custos placitorum coronae", originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family (from the Latin corona, literally crown). The duties of the office gradually narrowed and by the 17th century the chief function was to determine the cause of death in cases that were obviously not natural.
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SYNONYMS
medical examiner, forensics examiner
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The job of a coroner is not as glamorous as they make it out to be on television."
