coroners
Inquest-presiding officials
Coroners are public officials who investigate deaths, particularly those that are sudden, violent, or unexplained.
The coroner determines cause of death and whether an inquest or autopsy is needed.
In some jurisdictions, the role requires medical training; in others, it's an elected position without such requirements.
The coroner ruled the death a homicide.
Medical examination after death
- cause of deathWhy someone died
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- inquiryRequest for information
- forensicPertaining to legal investigation
toxicology · evidence · findings · report · ruling · determination · suspicious death · identification
Physician determining death causes
- pathologistDisease diagnosis specialist
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- officeProfessional work location
county · deputy · assistant · appointed · elected · caseload · qualifications · training
Formal death cause inquiry
- verdictOfficial court decision
- juryLegal decision-making body
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
death certificate · ruling · accidental · homicide · suicide · undetermined · natural causes · misadventure
Of the Middle Ages
- crownerFinal crowning achievement
- pleasEarnest requests or supplications
- treasure troveOwnerless valuables found hidden
- wreckDestroyed vessel or vehicle
royal · English law · office · ancient · origins · Norman · duties · jurisdiction
autopsy
Medical examination after death
- cause of deathWhy someone died
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- inquiryRequest for information
forensic · toxicology · evidence · findings · report · ruling · determination · suspicious death · identification · scene
medical examiner
Physician determining death causes
- pathologistDisease diagnosis specialist
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
office · county · deputy · assistant · appointed · elected · caseload · qualifications · training · forensic medicine
inquest
Formal death cause inquiry
hearing · death certificate · ruling · accidental · homicide · suicide · undetermined · natural causes · misadventure · unlawful killing
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- crownerFinal crowning achievement
- pleasEarnest requests or supplications
- treasure troveOwnerless valuables found hidden
wreck · royal · English law · office · ancient · origins · Norman · duties · jurisdiction · inquests
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- government workerscivil servants, federal workers, civil servant, bureaucrat, federal employees
- legal professionlawyers, attorneys, solicitors, solicitor, barristers
- feudal lawfeudal rights, feudal system, seigneurial rights, fiefs, vassalage
- legal systemattorney, landmark cases, criminal cases, lawyers, legal precedents
- council officialscouncillors, councilors, mayors, deputy mayors, town clerks
coronerssurgeons
Doctors performing operations
physicians · doctors · trauma surgeons · paramedics · midwives
- coroner's officeDeath investigation authority
- coroner's report
- coroner's courtTribunal investigating unexplained deaths
- coroner's juryBody ruling on deaths
- coroner's inquestJudicial investigation into unexplained deaths
- coroner reportOfficial cause-of-death statement