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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.

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postmortem

1. occurring after death

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

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postmortem [pōst′mȯrd·əm]

(computer science)

Any action taken after an operation is completed to help analyze that operation.

(medicine)

Occurring after death.