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Postmortem

noun

Discussion of an event after it has occurred. Synonym: post-mortem.

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, post-mortem examination, postmortem examination.

adjective

Occurring or done after death. Synonym: postmortal. "A postmortem examination to determine cause of death" , "Postmortal wounds" Antonym: antemortem.

After death or after an event. "The postmortem discussion of the President's TV address"

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... abscess; the diffuse peritonitis of this stage might then be designated a nonbacterial 'chemical' inflammation, according to the terminology now in vogue; finally, it was positively a bacterial infection, although the postmortem finding of bacteria in the distant folds of the peritoneum is not proof of this; we know that during the terminal agony or after death these may wander a long distance from the ...

— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... "it can be nothing else;" adding to myself, "a good job too, for now there will be no postmortem on old Marnham." ...

— Finished • H. Rider Haggard

... hospital gangrene. . . Scurvy consists not only in an alteration in the constitution of the blood, which leads to passive hemorrhages from the bowels, and the effusion into the various tissues of a deeply-colored fibrinous exudation; but, as we have conclusively shown by postmortem examination, this state is attended with consistence of the muscles of the heart, and the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, and of solid parts generally. We have, according to the extent of the ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy