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

Ramisa's mother, Ranu Akhter, traveled hundreds of miles after doctors in eastern Bangladesh referred her to a specialized child hospital in Dhaka to seek treatment for the life-threatening condition.

— JULHAS ALAM, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
The mindfulness content will include meditation exercises, but also content from doctors, therapists and psychologists, not to mention former ABC News correspondent Dan Harris, who left ABC five years ago to focus on his meditation company.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 10 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

Sabinah Mohyuddin was getting her kids ready for school in Clarksville, Tennessee, while her husband, a cancer physician, was still asleep.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
With physical illness, there is usually no dispute among physicians as to its existence or non-existence.

— Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of physician

Noun

Talk to your family doctor or reach out to organizations that specialize in mental health and suicide prevention.

— Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of family doctor

Noun

The coroner’s office identified the victim Wednesday as Daniel Deminico, 66, of Kuna.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2026
Under the new law, crematories will be required to notify my office and the local coroner if remains have not been cremated within 30 days of delivery.

— Susana Mendoza, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of coroner

Noun

Just as Grossman had to reconstruct the camp at Treblinka after attempts to erase it, so Littell methodically — at times forensically, through interviews with pathologists, survivors and grave diggers — recreates the killings in Bucha.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
In another lesson, Gowitt explained how X-rays help forensic pathologists find bullets inside a body before an examination.

— Leondra Head, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of pathologist

Noun

Southern and Lovelace are known for such music docs as Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012), about LCD Soundsystem, and the Blur documentary No Distance Left to Run (2012).

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Part of the frustration and fascination of these climbing docs is that the filmmakers can never quite answer the question of why these people — tenacious, but undoubtedly masochistic — carry on and up the mountain again and again.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026

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