Post-mortem

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of post mortem. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease wordnet
  3. 3
    discussion of an event after it has occurred wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of post mortem. alt-of, alternative, not-comparable

    "As the physician can obtain the faculty of making correct diagnoses of obscure diseases only by carefully attending to ante-mortem symptoms and post-mortem examinations, so the engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types."

Synonyms

All synonyms
autopsynecropsypmpost-mortem examinationpostmortempostmortem examination

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"The body of a recruit has been exhumed for a second post-mortem."

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