postmortem
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- noun
- /poʊstˈmɔrtəm/
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autopsia
- The postmortem examination revealed crucial evidence about the cause of death.
- postmortem examination
- postmortem diagnosis
- perform a postmortem
And then looking at their brains, I think it was a big study done in postmortems.
- And then looking at their brains, I think it was a big study done in postmortems.
Examples
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And these are postmortem scans of patients that have died in this hospital.
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Complete postmortem examinations were performed, and sections of lung were collected for bacterial and mycoplasma culture.
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Have you seen the postmortem photographs?
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Postmortem revealed that he was suffering from lung cancer.
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I get down to Boise today and get the M.E. to do a postmortem.
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I want you to bring me, before nightfall, a set of postmortem knives.
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"The biggest single thing was the indication from postmortem lividity that the body had been moved."
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In this postmortem, were you asked to determine... ...whether the deceased had reached a sexual climax before death?
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Well, if she wasn't cremated, it's not too late for a postmortem examination.
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Additionally, 3 pigs with catarrhal enteritis were euthanized; postmortem examination at the regional laboratory confirmed coronavirus infection in all 3 animals.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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A check of a dead body to find the cause of death
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A medical examination of a dead body to find how the person died
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A careful cutting open and check of a dead animal to find cause of death
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A medical check that cuts open a dead body to find the cause of death
Cutting open a dead body to find the cause of death
An examination of a dead body to find the cause of death
Compounds
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A medical check that cuts open a dead body to find the cause of death
How Thorough
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Surface Forms
Morphology
postmortem = mortem (semi-transparent) = post + mortem
For the medical sense ('autopsy'), the composition 'post-' + 'mortem' directly indicates 'after death', but 'mortem' as a combining form may be unfamiliar to some learners.
Etymology
Postmortem comes from the Latin parts post- 'after' and mortem 'death', and as a noun it means an examination after death (an autopsy) to find the cause of death. That's why a medical postmortem is a detailed check of a body after someone has died.