Autopsy

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  • noun. Examination of a cadaver to determine or confirm the cause of death.
  • noun. A critical assessment or examination after the fact.
  • transitive verb. To subject to an autopsy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A seeing for one's self; personal ocular observation, inspection, or examination. Specifically
  • noun. In pathology and anatomy, dissection and inspection of a dead body to discover the cause of death, or the site and character of the disease of which the person died; post-mortem examination; a post-mortem.
  • To make a post-mortem examination of; perform an autopsy on.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
  • noun. Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
  • noun. An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
  • verb. To perform an autopsy on.
  • verb. To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem
  • noun. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
  • Word Usage
    "URIBE: Your honor, I would just bring up the fact that whether or not that was a condition of these, of the agreement, whether or not that's used for the term autopsy photo or refers to the autopsy photos in the report."
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