A médica legista fez o exame de corpo delito.

English translation: The medical examiner/coroner examined the victim's body (the coroner examined the corpus delicti)

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Portuguese term or phrase:A médica legista fez o exame de corpo delito.
English translation:The medical examiner/coroner examined the victim's body (the coroner examined the corpus delicti)
Entered by: Cybeles Lehner

00:33 Mar 1, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / vocabulary
Portuguese term or phrase: A médica legista fez o exame de corpo delito.
A médica legista foi chamada para fazer o exame de corpo delito.
Cybeles Lehner
Brazil
The medical examiner/coroner examined the victim's body
Explanation:
You have TWO questions here. It would have been better to post them separately.

1. The preferred term is "medical examiner," but to avoid the redundancy one might want to use "coroner." In this part, the other answer is correct.

2. The corpus delicti is the body of the victim, no more, no less.

Annoying as it may sound, there were 179 references for "the medical examiner examined":

**The Medical Examiner examined** sections of the dural membranes and the skin from Alexa's back microscopically and found that the bleeding was fresh and ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0975314408...

Tampabay: Worker botched seven autopsies
That leaves a mother doubting **the medical examiner examined the correct brain**."How can I be sure? ...
www.sptimes.com/News/062400/TampaBay/Worker_botched_seven_....

The emergency teams, several physicians, and **the medical examiner examined** the baby from August 2nd through August 10th. During these examinations, they did ...
www.freeyurko.bizland.com/albayatisum.html

III-E. Causes of the marks observed on Jordan’s
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The paramedics, emergency physician, and **the medical examiner examined** Jordan on 25 September and did not see any evidence of trauma on his the upper and ...
www.thebyteshow.com/Help/Al-Bayati-Jordan-report-final-3-1-...

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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:13
Grading comment
Agradeço a todos pelas sugestões e desejo um ótimo final de semana.

Muriel, muito grata pelas excelentes informações adicionais !
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2The medical examiner/coroner examined the victim's body
Muriel Vasconcellos
3 +1The coroner examined the body of the offense (OR corpus delicti)
rhandler
4The coroner performed the corpus delicti examination
Paul Dixon


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The coroner examined the body of the offense (OR corpus delicti)


Explanation:
Acredito que seja isso.

Coroner = legista

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Note added at 13 mins (2008-03-01 00:46:36 GMT)
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Exemplos:

THE PEOPLE &C., RESPONDENT, v. WAYNE S. MILLER, APPELLANT.
The expert could draw her conclusions from the record evidence despite the fact that she had not personally examined the corpus delicti or performed the ...
www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I98_0022.htm

[PDF] The Mill on the Floss
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
stooped down and examined the corpus delicti. Tom’s imagination had not been rapid and capacious enough to include this question among the ...
www.bartleby.com/ebook/adobe/309.pdf


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Note added at 14 mins (2008-03-01 00:47:30 GMT)
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Legista também pode ser "medical examiner".

rhandler
Local time: 13:13
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 230

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: The first part is OK, but "the offense" is ungrammatical here and doesn't make sense.
25 mins
  -> Better use "the coroner examined the corpus delicti"

agree  Humberto Ribas
1 day 14 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Humberto, bom domingo.
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
The medical examiner/coroner examined the victim's body


Explanation:
You have TWO questions here. It would have been better to post them separately.

1. The preferred term is "medical examiner," but to avoid the redundancy one might want to use "coroner." In this part, the other answer is correct.

2. The corpus delicti is the body of the victim, no more, no less.

Annoying as it may sound, there were 179 references for "the medical examiner examined":

**The Medical Examiner examined** sections of the dural membranes and the skin from Alexa's back microscopically and found that the bleeding was fresh and ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0975314408...

Tampabay: Worker botched seven autopsies
That leaves a mother doubting **the medical examiner examined the correct brain**."How can I be sure? ...
www.sptimes.com/News/062400/TampaBay/Worker_botched_seven_....

The emergency teams, several physicians, and **the medical examiner examined** the baby from August 2nd through August 10th. During these examinations, they did ...
www.freeyurko.bizland.com/albayatisum.html

III-E. Causes of the marks observed on Jordan’s
File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML
The paramedics, emergency physician, and **the medical examiner examined** Jordan on 25 September and did not see any evidence of trauma on his the upper and ...
www.thebyteshow.com/Help/Al-Bayati-Jordan-report-final-3-1-...



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 581
Grading comment
Agradeço a todos pelas sugestões e desejo um ótimo final de semana.

Muriel, muito grata pelas excelentes informações adicionais !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: simple and straight to the point
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Claudio!

agree  H. Russell Fisher
19 hrs
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
The coroner performed the corpus delicti examination


Explanation:
A suggestion.

Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 13:13
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
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