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
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.
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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
About 1 in 4 coroner’s offices answering this year’s survey said their budgets affect their ability to do autopsies.
—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
The great majority of the remains were collected from about 1840 to about 1940, mostly from Philadelphia, largely body parts and organs that were considered to be helpful in medical education and taken during autopsies or surgery.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
The names of the deceased family members are being withheld by law enforcement pending autopsies scheduled for Wednesday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and notification of next of kin, officials said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025
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
About 1 in 4 coroner’s offices answering this year’s survey said their budgets affect their ability to do autopsies.
—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
The great majority of the remains were collected from about 1840 to about 1940, mostly from Philadelphia, largely body parts and organs that were considered to be helpful in medical education and taken during autopsies or surgery.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
The names of the deceased family members are being withheld by law enforcement pending autopsies scheduled for Wednesday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and notification of next of kin, officials said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 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 8 Oct. 2025.
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