as in autopsies
examination of a dead body especially to find out the cause of death
a coroner performed the postmortem examination with painstaking thoroughness
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autopsies
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The autopsies shed no further light.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025 -
In a cemetery shed, the doctors performed more than three thousand autopsies, which revealed that starvation softened the bones and atrophied vital organs.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Postmortem examinations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postmortem%20examinations. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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