coroner

IPA: kˈɔrʌnɝ

(Commonwealth, Japan, law) A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, and who may have (or historically had) additional powers such as investigating cases of treasure trove.
(Canada, US, medicine) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
(Isle of Man) The administrative head of a sheading.

Examples of "coroner" in Sentences

The deputy acts in the absence of the state coroner.
A coroners inquest was made the night of the incident.
The coroner determined it was a blood clot in the brain.
The term coroner is derived from the Anglo-Norman word, corouner.
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:
For example, he claimed to have played the Munchkin coroner (actually Meinhardt Raabe) or recorded that character's voice (all the Munchkin voices were ordinary actors sped up).
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.