postmortem examination

noun

Synonyms of postmortem examination next

: autopsy sense 1

Examples of postmortem examination in a Sentence

a coroner performed the postmortem examination with painstaking thoroughness

Recent Examples on the Web The victims’ bodies were recovered and flown to a hospital for postmortem examinations. —

Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 11 July 2023 Slight acceleration or shaking of the brain that doesn’t register as a concussion may, if repeated frequently enough, trigger a cascading, dementia-like disease process that continues years after the trauma stops and is discovered only through postmortem examination. —

New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022 The Sheriff’s Office said the cause of death is to be determined, with a forensic postmortem examination scheduled for Tuesday. —

Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023 This type of postmortem examination is known as an autopsy. —

Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 3 Oct. 2022 The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office took custody of the fetus pending a postmortem examination as an investigation continues, Phoenix police said. —

Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2022 During a postmortem examination, the coroner concluded that Kathleen had died from injuries that were consistent with blunt force trauma, not an accidental fall. —

Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 4 June 2022 Dunikoski showed Donoghue a series of photos taken during the postmortem examination and asked the medical examiner to give a detailed description of each. —

Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2021 The postmortem examination was performed Monday, and the subsequent report with more details about the findings was expected to be completed by mid- to late November, Hess said. —

Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021 See More

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First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of postmortem examination was in 1832

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