11-591. Definitions In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Alternate medical examiner" means a physician who has training and competence in the principles of death investigation and who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. 2. " Autopsy" means a surgical procedure in which internal organs are exposed, removed or examined for the identification of trauma or natural disease. 3. " Death investigation" means the investigation directed by a county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner into the circumstances surrounding a death occurring as prescribed in section 11-593. 4. " External examination" means an external inspection of a body. 5. " Forensic pathologist" means a physician who has successfully completed a pathology residency and a forensic fellowship or has extensive experience performing forensic autopsies in an official capacity. 6. " Investigative information" means information received by a medical examiner or alternate medical examiner from law enforcement, witnesses, family members, health care personnel or medical death investigators concerning cause and manner of death. 7. " Medical death investigator" means a person trained in the principles of death investigation. 8. " Medical examiner" means a forensic pathologist who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. 9. " Nurse practitioner" means a person licensed and certified pursuant to title 32, chapter 15. 10. " Organ procurement organization" means an organization located within this state that meets the requirements of 42 United States Code section 273. 11. " Pathologist assistant" means a person certified as a pathologist assistant who has graduated from a pathologist assistant training program approved by a national accrediting agency for clinical laboratory sciences. 12. " Physician" means a person licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17. 13. " Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed or regulated under federal or state law or accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting organization to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of tissue.
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