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occurring after one's death
- postmortem tests on the brain tissue of people who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease
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- antemortem
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of postmortem (Entry 2 of 2)
examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death
- the postmortem revealed that the cause of death had been an undetected heart defect
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The first known use of postmortem was in 1824
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