MEDICAL EXAMINER Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

medical examiner

noun

Definition of medical examiner

as in doctor

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Recent Examples of medical examiner In Pima County, and throughout the country, many deaths never go to the medical examiner's office. — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 The original medical examiner is dead, so the replacement, Lisa Gavin, examined slides of Shakur’s bloated cadaver with the dispassion of a science teacher dissecting a frog. — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 The medical examiner could not determine Jones’ cause or manner of death. — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The Honolulu Police Department’s investigation remains ongoing, while a local medical examiner said her official cause and manner of death have yet to be determined, noting that a final determination could take several months. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 29 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for medical examiner

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Noun

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Donna is estranged from Robert, who is a doctor in New York.

— Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
On a muggy Saturday afternoon in mid-August, tennis player Novak Djokovic appeared to vomit into a towel and called for a doctor to check his blood pressure before unexpectedly losing a second-round match in Cincinnati.

— Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of doctor

Noun

In some cases, added Alexa Mieses Malchuk, MD, a family physician based in Pennsylvania, a result may not be useful regardless of how accurately it’s interpreted.

— Cathy Cassata, HEALTH, 21 Aug. 2026
But the homes can’t have a doctor of their own on staff, and a family physician working for the state will be required to visit them once a month.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of family physician

Noun

But right at that moment Giovanni Di Lillo, a family doctor who had retired over twenty years earlier, had happened to be passing by during his morning constitutional along the coast.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Asking them to lead your exit is like asking your family doctor to perform heart surgery.

— Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of family doctor

Noun

Lancaster County's coroner told reporters that his office was investigating the death of an infant who tested positive for measles and died from a ruptured spleen, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Although Diamantoni is the coroner for Lancaster County, where both the deceased baby and child lived, the county does not have its own local health department and gets information from the state health department.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of coroner

Noun

When a prosecutor asked why the body was so swollen, the pathologist explained that six days of life support left his blood and lymphatic fluids unable to circulate; the vessels seeped into the surrounding tissues.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
The former child star has been working as a licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) since 2017, according to her Expressable profile.

— Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of pathologist

Noun

Others are likely to follow in his footsteps, because docs about the worst day of someone’s life and the terrible things people do to one another is a genre of entertainment that audiences can’t get enough of.

— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Producer and 10 Lives founder and CEO Daniel Catullo set the stage for such a party by introducing the film and encouraging audience members to get out of their seats during the showing and record clips of the doc.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026

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