autopsies

Variant of autopsy

autopsy definition

au·top·sy (ô′täp′sē, ôt′əp sē)

noun pl. autopsies -·sies

  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

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

transitive verb autopsied -·sied, autopsying -·sy·ing

to examine (a body) in this manner

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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