autopsy: see post-mortem examination post-mortem examination or autopsy, systematic examination of a cadaver for study or for determining the cause of death. Post-mortems use many methodical procedures to determine the etiology and pathogenesis of diseases, for epidemologic
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autopsy

or necropsy or postmortem

Dissection and examination of a dead body to determine cause of death and learn about disease processes in ways that are not possible with the living. Autopsies have contributed to the development of medicine since at least the Middle Ages. Beyond revealing causes of individual deaths, autopsy is crucial to the accuracy of disease and death statistics, the education of medical students, the understanding of new and changing diseases, and the advancement of medical science.

autopsy

dissection and examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death

autopsy [′ȯ‚tap·sē]

(pathology)

A postmortem examination of the body to determine cause of death.

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autopsy

autopsy
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