medical examiner: Meaning and Definition of

med'ical exam"iner

1. a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
2. a physician retained by an insurance company, industrial firm, or the like, to give medical examinations to its clients or employees.