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Post-mortem examination   /poʊst-mˈɔrtəm ɪgzˌæmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Post-mortem examination

noun
1.
An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease.  Synonyms: autopsy, necropsy, PM, post-mortem, postmortem, postmortem examination.






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"Post-mortem examination" Quotes from Famous Books



... post-mortem examination of the body and found that death was due to poisoning by strophanthin, which appeared to have been injected into the thigh. The two tubes which I found on the dressing-table would each have contained, if full, twenty tabloids, each tabloid representing ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman

... the wall there, disclosing a hollow that had been used for a hiding-place, and on the floor lay young Galbraith with a sack of Spanish coins in his hand. His father stooped to pick him up, but staggered back in horror, for the young man's life had gone. A post-mortem examination revealed no cause of death, and a rustic jury again laid it to a ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... its victim, but the post-mortem examination of the poor creature showed to all the surgeons and to all the world that the public were wrong, and William H. Seward was right, and that hard, stony step of obloquy in the Auburn court-room was the first step of the stairs of fame up which he went to the top, or to within one step of the top, ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... the correct amount of shrinkage. A man might thirst in the desert for a week, then, coming to a hole of water fall in and drown, but we would hardly accept the report of a normal water content found at the post-mortem examination as evidence that his death was not connected ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

... a post-mortem examination and an inquest. Mrs. Darrell had taken poison. The jury brought in a verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind. The act seemed too causeless for sanity. Her strange absent ways had attracted the attention of the servants for some time past, and the evidence of her own maid respecting ...
— Milly Darrell and Other Tales • M. E. Braddon



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