as in dissection
examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death
the autopsy revealed an advanced stage of cancer
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Recent Examples of autopsy
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is conducting an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of his death.
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2024
The law provides no oversight, no state medical examiner and no other resources to ensure each county has adequate access to autopsies.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 2 Dec. 2024
Toxicology results from the autopsy have not yet been completed.
—David Chiu, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The autopsy confirmed the woman died from multiple sharp force injuries, and her death was ruled a homicide.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2024
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2024
The law provides no oversight, no state medical examiner and no other resources to ensure each county has adequate access to autopsies.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 2 Dec. 2024
Toxicology results from the autopsy have not yet been completed.
—David Chiu, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
The autopsy confirmed the woman died from multiple sharp force injuries, and her death was ruled a homicide.
—Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for autopsy
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This sequence, the show’s comic high point, represents at once a deft piece of stagecraft that, in the cacophony of angry comments projected behind the heads of Don and company, becomes a clever comic dissection of the public square in the age of Zoom.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Before now, it had only been spotted by humans six times—never alive and never in the correct conditions for dissection.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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There was a reason for that, Virgin River showrunner Patrick Sean Smith explained in a postmortem interview with Deadline dissecting Season 6 and teasing Season 7.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
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Since beginning its relentless assault on Gaza last year, the Israeli government has offered the families of biologically male soldiers who die in action the option of postmortem sperm retrieval (PMSR).Longreads, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
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The elusive specimen, like the one collected in August, will undergo a necropsy to determine cause of death and later be preserved for future study, becoming part of the Scripps’ Marine Vertebrate Collection, one of the largest collections of deep-sea fish in the world.Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
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Nearly all the dead sawfish have had necropsies performed by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s sawfish research program based at its Charlotte Harbor Field Laboratory.Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
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“Autopsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autopsy. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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