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autopsies
Variant of autopsy
noun pl. autopsies
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to discover the cause of death, damage done by disease, etc.; postmortem
- a detailed critical analysis of a book, play, etc., or of some event
transitive verb autopsied, autopsying
to examine (a body) in this manner
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