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Autopsy

//ˈɔːtɒpsiː// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

    "The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds."

  2. 2
    an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease wordnet
  3. 3
    An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure. figuratively

    "This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy."

  4. 4
    An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed. rare
Verb
  1. 1
    To perform an autopsy on. transitive
  2. 2
    perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem wordnet
  3. 3
    To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure. transitive

    "The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

Etymology 2

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

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