autopsies

Variant of autopsy

noun pl. autopsies

  1. an examination and dissection of a dead body to discover the cause of death, damage done by disease, etc.; postmortem
  2. a detailed critical analysis of a book, play, etc., or of some event

Origin: ML & Gr autopsia, a seeing with one's own eyes < Gr autos, self + opsis, a sight < ōps, eye

transitive verb autopsied, autopsying

to examine (a body) in this manner
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