Thanatomicrobiome

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The microbiome existing in a mammalian host after it dies. uncountable

    "What happens to these cells after human host death, defined here as the thanatomicrobiome (i.e., thanatos-, Greek defn., death), is not clear."

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"What happens to these cells after human host death, defined here as the thanatomicrobiome (i.e., thanatos-, Greek defn., death), is not clear."

Etymology

From thanato- + microbiome.

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