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

n. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths.

n. A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.

n. The administrative head of a sheading.

n. An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.

n. A county or municipal officer formerly charged with the interests of the private property of the crown, but whose main function in modern times is to hold inquest on the bodies of those who may be supposed to have died violent deaths.

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

"The term coroner is derived from the Anglo-Norman word, corouner."

investigator   

coroner's court    coroner's inquest    coroner of the royal household   

crowner   

foreigner   

sheriff    prosecutor    examiner    pathologist    magistrate    constable    superintendent    solicitor    treasurer    marshal