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

• 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.