as in dissection
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 autopsy
An autopsy performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed Colin Bizilj died by suicide caused by a gunshot wound to his head.
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
Rarely has a document been at once as mysterious and anticlimactic as the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 election, which, after much drama and angst, was finally published on Thursday.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Following an autopsy on Thursday, his cause of death has been ruled a drowning and the manner of death an accident, Smith said.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 May 2026
That being said, that is largely where the autopsy’s positives end.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
Rarely has a document been at once as mysterious and anticlimactic as the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 election, which, after much drama and angst, was finally published on Thursday.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Following an autopsy on Thursday, his cause of death has been ruled a drowning and the manner of death an accident, Smith said.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 May 2026
That being said, that is largely where the autopsy’s positives end.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for autopsy
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Gathering information without dissection Voight analyzed the specimen, a female octopus, using CT imaging to preserve it as best as possible, according to the press release.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
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Out in the desert, there was no scrutiny of his clashes on the track, no dissection of his words, no chorus of boos.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The Medical Examiner’s Office and the FBI clinched the identification by comparing partial postmortem fingerprints with an arrest record from 1981.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 June 2026
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In a study published yesterday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, state and federal researchers provided a detailed postmortem of last year’s massive multi-state measles outbreak that mushroomed out of West Texas.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
29 May 2026
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According to EuroNews, Denmark's environmental and nature agency and coastal rescue service worked together to tow the dead whale farther out from the coast, with plans to later transport the carcass to the port town of Grenaa, where experts plan to perform a necropsy.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
26 May 2026
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Of 50 cormorants submitted to the lab for necropsies from May 2025 to April 2026, 46 were juvenile, one was an adult and the rest were in a condition too poor to determine.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
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“Autopsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autopsy. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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