post mortem

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post·mor·tem

 (pōst-môr′təm)
adj.
1. Occurring or done after death.
2. Of or relating to a medical examination of a dead body.
n.
1. See autopsy.
2. Informal An analysis or review of a finished event.

[Latin post mortem : post, afterward; see post- + mortem, accusative of mors, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

post mor′tem adv.
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post mortem

A Latin term meaning after death, used to describe something happening after someone’s death or to mean a medical examination carried out on a dead body.
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Translations
ohledání mrtvoly
obduktion
Obduktion
autopsiepost-mortem
líkskoîun, krufning
analisi del votoautopsia
lavono skrodimas
līķa sekcija
obhliadnutie mŕtvoly
otopsi

post mortem,

postmortem

(pəusˈmoːtəm) noun
a medical examination of a dead body in order to find out the cause of death.
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post mortem

n autopsia, necropsia
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In half an hour there was a board meeting; later, he was to hold a post mortem on a railroad; at every moment questions were being asked by telegraph, by cable, questions that involved the credit of individuals, of firms, of even the country.
Goodfellow that a post mortem examination of the beast should be immediately made, with the view, if possible, of discovering the ball.
"Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal?"
The sentence of the judges being thoroughly executed, a post mortem examination of the body of the dog was held, to establish his delinquency beyond all doubt, and to leave the Nez Perces without a shadow of suspicion.
Instead of habeas corpus you would get post mortems. If you refused to go into the militia, or to obey after you were in, you would be tried by drumhead court martial and shot down like dogs.
The cause of death of a 30-year-old woman, who died suddenly in her home in Latsia, Nicosia, on Thursday afternoon, was a pulmonary embolism, the post mortem showed on Friday.
ISLAMABAD, January 04, 2011 (Frontier Star): The body of assassinated Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has been shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for internal post mortem. Earlier his external post mortem was held at Poly Clinic Hospital where he was shifted after a security guard opened fire on him in a posh market here, injuring him fatally on Tuesday.
Dr Selby faces charges that he told them a post mortem would only involve a ``one inch incision'', removal of a ``slither of tissue'' and nothing else.
He explained that two types of post mortem were carried out at Warwick Hospital - coroner's post mortems and hospital post mortems.
A second post mortem on the body of a Birmingham student has confirmed he died of drowning.
The transport problem arose on Wednesday when police asked for the transfer of a body to the Limassol hospital for a post mortem, but staff at the Paphos hospital did not have a vehicle to arrange this.
Rawalpindi, October 15, 2009 (Frontier Star): The dead bodies of nine terrorists who were killed during GHQ attack have been buried at unknown graveyard after formal post mortem here on Thursday.
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