Office of coroner

coroner /cor·o·ner/ (kor´on-er) an officer who holds inquests in regard to violent, sudden, or unexplained deaths.

cor·o·ner (kôr

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A public officer whose primary function is to investigate by inquest any death thought to be of other than natural causes.

coroner

[kôr′ənər]

Etymology: L, corona, crown

a public official who investigates the causes and circumstances of deaths that occur within a specific legal jurisdiction or territory, especially those that may have resulted from unnatural causes. Also called medical examiner.

Coroner

Forensics—UK An independent judicial officer who acts on behalf of the Crown to investigate the cause and circumstances of violent or unnatural deaths, or sudden deaths of an unknown cause. Coroners must be legally and/or medically qualified; most are now drawn from the legal profession
Forensics—US An elected or appointed public official whose chief responsibility is to investigate and provide official interpretation regarding the manner and possible cause(s) of unexplained deaths

coroner [kor´ah-ner]

an official of a local community who holds inquests concerning sudden, violent, or unexplained deaths.

coroner

Forensic medicine An elected–less commonly appointed–public official whose chief responsibility is to investigate and provide official interpretation regarding the manner and possible cause(s) of unexplained deaths; in contrast to a medical examiner, coroners are usually not required to be medical doctors, although the requirements depend on the laws governing the jurisdiction. See Forensic pathology. Cf Medical examiner.

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A spokeswoman at the Caernar-fon office of coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones said they were unable to release the boys' bodies until they had heard from the Crown Prosecution Service.

WALES: Please can we have them back... we are going through agony; ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

She added: "We are clear that the time has come for Mr Sheffield to face further action from you and that the only course which remains is to remove him from the office of Coroner of Teesside.

It's time to go by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

1974: MPs were calling for the abolition of the office of coroner -a role which dates back more than 800 years.

Echoes of the ECHO by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)

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Office of Consumer Credit Regulation
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Office of Continuing Education and Public Service
Office of Continuing Education and Training
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Office of Continuing Medical Education and Outreach
Office of Continuing Professional Education
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Office of Cooperative Environmental Management
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