as in dissections
examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death
the autopsy revealed an advanced stage of cancer
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Recent Examples of autopsies
In a cemetery shed, the doctors performed more than three thousand autopsies, which revealed that starvation softened the bones and atrophied vital organs.
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Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Israel is conducting autopsies on the bodies that have returned.
—NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
After conducting autopsies, medical examiners at the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory determined Holly Parham's death was the result of a homicide, while David Parham's death was ruled a suicide, the release states.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2025
Forensic testing, including ballistics and autopsies, is ongoing.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
On Friday, Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin confirmed the identities of both hunters to Denver7 over the phone and said full autopsies were scheduled for Monday in El Paso County.
—Oscar Contreras, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement And nitazenes’ presence in the market—as well as their involvement in overdose deaths—is likely being underreported, because the technology needed to identify them isn’t widely used in autopsies, posing unique problems for their detection.
—Connor Greene, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Its national accreditations limit how many autopsies each of those pathologists can do — a rule that’s designed to help keep the doctors from being overworked and error-prone but causes backlogs when there’s too much demand.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025
What To Know Kaye and Deluca's autopsies revealed Kaye, 70, died within minutes of being shot, and Deluca, also 70, died within seconds.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Israel is conducting autopsies on the bodies that have returned.
—NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
After conducting autopsies, medical examiners at the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory determined Holly Parham's death was the result of a homicide, while David Parham's death was ruled a suicide, the release states.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2025
Forensic testing, including ballistics and autopsies, is ongoing.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
On Friday, Conejos County Coroner Richard Martin confirmed the identities of both hunters to Denver7 over the phone and said full autopsies were scheduled for Monday in El Paso County.
—Oscar Contreras, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement And nitazenes’ presence in the market—as well as their involvement in overdose deaths—is likely being underreported, because the technology needed to identify them isn’t widely used in autopsies, posing unique problems for their detection.
—Connor Greene, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Its national accreditations limit how many autopsies each of those pathologists can do — a rule that’s designed to help keep the doctors from being overworked and error-prone but causes backlogs when there’s too much demand.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2025
What To Know Kaye and Deluca's autopsies revealed Kaye, 70, died within minutes of being shot, and Deluca, also 70, died within seconds.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autopsies
Noun
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Based on dissections of a few catfish and the timing of the sighting, researchers concluded the bumblebee catfish were likely migrating upriver to spawn and were not eating during the migration.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Of the whales examined through necropsies, about 40% had evidence of human interaction, either by ship strike or entanglement.—
Sara Chernikoff,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Autopsies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autopsies. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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