autopsy
autopsy
Definition
au·top·sy (ô′täp′sē, ôt′əp sē)
noun pl. -·sies
- 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
Etymology: ML & Gr autopsia, a seeing with one's own eyes < Gr autos, self + opsis, a sight < ōps, eye
transitive verb -·sied, -·sy·ing
to examine (a body) in this manner
autopsy
Synonyms
autopsy
n.
autopsy
Law Definition
n
The post-mortem examination
of a human body, including its dissection and the removal and inspection of the
major organs, to determine the cause of death.
autopsy
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- body: Russian forces found the remains and conducted the autopsy of the bodies the following month, said Prof Perrier.
Converse of object
- perform: Do you have a facility where we can perform an autopsy?
- conduct: The Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an autopsy.
- begin: At precisely the same moment, in London, Prof Von Hagans began the first public autopsy for 170 years.
- do: I invite you to join with us in doing an autopsy on the life of the Lord Jesus.
- have: SKINNER: Don't you have an autopsy to do first?
- say: She said the autopsy had turned up something really strange.
Preposition: on
- body: The AB version starts with a prolog of two men going to do an autopsy on the body of our hero Waldemar Daninsky.
Adjective modifier
- coronial: The Organizational Questionnaire was designed to gather information about the facilities that are available to pathologists to perform coronial autopsies.
- alien: Is it just me or does that sound very alien autopsy?
- human: And with modern imaging technology, we need no longer even wait for human autopsy to find out what is wrong and where.
- public: At precisely the same moment, in London, Prof Von Hagans began the first public autopsy for 170 years.
- psychological: Rachel's safe, predictable existence is shaken up by an invitation to conduct a psychological autopsy on a colleague, Alix Price.
- full: After her death they would perform a full autopsy and use her brain to further the study of dementia.
Modifies a noun
- specimen: The morphological introductions, and all the autopsy specimens, are demonstrated and discussed by Professor Anderson.
- finding: REYES: I wanted to get your opinion on an autopsy finding.
- report: SCULLY: May we see the autopsy report, please?
- photo: There are websites devoted to autopsy photos, death scene photos, all sorts of sick stuff.
- study: Twenty seven young people ( 25 males, 2 females ) were the subjects of the psychological autopsy study.
- rate: The decline in the hospital autopsy rate threatens this role.
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