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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

... excursion is going to wind up in a tragedy, and if I die I want you to have a post-mortem examination made, just to see if I am right about those doctors leaving that monkey wrench in me. For heaven's sake make the machine jump that fence, for here comes a drove of cattle in the road, more'n a hundred horned steers, and we ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... the physicians, who had disagreed about his case all the way through, came and insisted on a post-mortem examination to prove which was right and what was really the matter with him. We can imagine how people went by shaking their heads and regretting that Methuselah should have tampered with tobacco when he knew that ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye

... 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



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