n. a county official with the responsibility to determine the cau...

A coroner is an officer of a county, district, municipality, etc, holding inquest on bodies of persons who may have died by violence or accident (unnatural deaths).

late 12c., from Anglo-French curuner, from Latin custos placitorum coronae, originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family, from Latin corona, literal [..]

A county official who determines the cause of death of anyone who dies violently (by attack or accident), suddenly, or suspiciously.

a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes A coroner or forensics examiner is an official chiefly responsible for investigating deaths, particularly some of thos [..]

A public official who inquires into deaths of people who did not die under the care of a physician or people whose deaths may not have been due to natural causes.

[Anglo-French, recorder of crown pleas, from corone crown] : a public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of death when there is reason to think the death may not . [..]

A public official and in some cases a constitutional officer whose duty it is to investigate the case of death if it appears to be from other than natural causes, or if there was no physician in attendance for a long time prior to death. CORTEGE

a person who determines the cause of death after a person dies

A coroner is a county officer whose duty it is to determine the cause of death of anyone who dies violently, suddenly, or suspiciously.  It is his duty also, when the sheriff is unavailable, to serve [..]

(n) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes

Coroner’s Officer

An officer of a county, district or municipality, holding inquests on deaths thought to be violent or accidental.

a part-time legal official (of gentry status) who was empowered to hold post-mortem inquests (or inquisitions) to investigate the cause of sudden or suspicious deaths

a judicial officer who conducts inquests into deaths, which are not due to natural causes

A coroner is a court official who investigates deaths, judges the cause of death and, where a cause cannot be quickly established, conducts and oversees an inquest.

Investigates and reports on all violent, sudden or unusual deaths of persons within the County as established by California law.