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chief medicolegal officer

Medical examiner, coroner, justice of the peace or other official who oversees the operation of a medicolegal death investigation office and/or system.

Committee
Medicolegal Death Investigation
Date Added to Lexicon
Technical Report/Other Source (Author, Title of report. Publisher, Year.)
ASB TR 151, Medicolegal Death Investigation: Terms and Definitions. AAFS Academy Standards Board (ASB), 410 North 21st Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 2025. Source link
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