noun
- An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease.
- synonyms: necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination
verb
- Perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem. .
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