AUTOPSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autopsy mean? 

• AUTOPSY (noun)
  The noun AUTOPSY has 1 sense:

1. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

  Familiarity information: AUTOPSY used as a noun is very rare.

• AUTOPSY (verb)
  The verb AUTOPSY has 1 sense:

1. perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem

  Familiarity information: AUTOPSY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOPSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

autopsy; necropsy; PM; post-mortem; post-mortem examination; postmortem; postmortem examination

Hypernyms ("autopsy" is a kind of...):

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Derivation:

autopsy (perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem)

• AUTOPSY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they autopsy    ... he / she / it autopsies   
Past simple: autopsied   
Past participle: autopsied   
-ing form: autopsying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "autopsy" is one way to...):

examine; see (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

autopsy (an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease)

 Context examples 

"Must we make an autopsy?" I asked.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At present, there are no studies that consider both cognitive data and autopsy results from the same apes to distinguish between normal and pathologic aging processes.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to autopsy.

(Autopsy Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

In most cases the diagnosis is made at autopsy or postoperatively.

(Pericardial Malignant Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

SIDS is the sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and death scene investigation.

(Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin, National Institutes of Health)

They also found evidence for blood and lymph vessels in the dura of autopsied human brain tissue.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers involved in the GTEx Consortium collected data from more than 53 different tissue types (including brain, liver and lung) from autopsy, organ donations and tissue transplant programs.

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)

A cancer finding in the TNM system that is not specifically identified as a clinical, pathologic, recurrent (retreatment), or autopsy classification using an accepted prefix in accordance with TNM classification guidelines.

(Generic TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Additional data about deaths, specific to findings from autopsies.

(Autopsy Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The team used a 3D printer to compare the spots they had seen on scans to the lesions they observed in brain tissue samples autopsied from a patient who had passed away during the trial.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)