postmortem examinations

plural of postmortem examination
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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