autopsy
noun/ˈɔːtɒpsi/
/ˈɔːtɑːpsi/
(plural autopsies)
- an official examination of a dead body by a specially trained doctor in order to discover the cause of death synonym post-mortem
- an autopsy report
- to perform an autopsy
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2- The autopsy revealed that he had been poisoned.
- The diagnosis was confirmed by autopsy.
- They carried out an autopsy on the victim.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + autopsy- carry out
- conduct
- do
- …
- find something
- reveal something
- show something
- …
- findings
- report
- results
- …
- autopsy on
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.
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