Definition of "coroner" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term coroner is derived from the Anglo-Norman word, corouner."
• "As a dark-skinned zombie who has had the benefit of spending time in coroner autopsy rooms looking at a wide range of actual dead bodies, I have a sense of what brown dead bodies look like."
• "And one of them — the guy who played the munchkin coroner — even sublimely dozes off during the chatty, chirpy interview, which you can watch here:"