Autopsy

Definition: Autopsy

Autopsy

Noun

1. An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease.

Verb

1. Perform an autopsy; do a post-mortem.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "autopsy" was first used: 1651. (references)

Etymology: Autopsy \Au"top*sy\, noun. [from Greek expression, from seen by one's self; self seen: compare to the French expression autopsie. See Optic,]. (Websters 1913)

Health

Medicine

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

AUTOPSY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Autopsy

Interment

Exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination; zoothapsis.

Crosswords: Autopsy

Don't blow smoke up my ass, you'll ruin my autopsy. (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.)

A well-done autopsy is a joy forever. (Kolchak: The Night Stalker; writing credit: David Chase; Rudolph Borchert)

I've performed the autopsy on Jacques Renault. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones)

You want to autopsy Lucy? (Dracula; writing credit: James V. Hart)

Catherine, you can't say goodbye in an autopsy room. (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami)

The patient refused autopsy. (references; author: unknown)

Autopsy is a dying practice. (references; author: unknown)

Pitzer Film of Kennedy Autopsy (1963)

Custer Film of Kennedy Autopsy (1963)

Autopsy on Operation Abolition (1962)

The Alien Autopsy (1997)

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Books

• Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (reference)

• Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (reference)

• The Last Autopsy & Other Inimitable Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Autopsy (reference)

• The Best of Autopsy - A Sex Crimes Special (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Autopsy (reference)

• The Autopsy [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Incidental autopsy finding of pedunculated polyp in colon. Credit: CDC.

Autopsy specimen of aorta has been opened lengthwise to reveal luminal surface studded with lesions of atherosclerosis. Credit: CDC.

Alimentary tract of infant showing intestinal necrosis, pneumatosis intestinalis, and perforation site (arrow). Autopsy. Credit: CDC.

Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of autopsy liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Hepatocytes are pale-staining due to intracellular fat droplets. Credit: CDC.

Gross fixed autopsy specimen of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Yellowish-white fat replaces normally reddish-brown skeletal muscle. Credit: CDC.

Cut surface of gross autopsy specimen of liver showing diffuse pallor due to dense network of scar tissue (fibrosis, cirrhosis). Scarring has occurred in response to chronic injury from alcohol abuse. Credit: CDC.

Closeup of intestine of infant showing necrosis and pneumatosis intestinalis. Autopsy. Credit: CDC.

33 year old white male who died of inhalation anthrax; photomicrograph demonstrating necrotic lymph node found at time of autopsy; H&E stain. Credit: CDC.

Head opened at autopsy revealing purulent inflammation of leptomeninges beneath reflected dura. Credit: CDC.

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Health

Autopsy is an important part of this research effort. (references)

In an autopsy, the whole brain is examined after death. (references)

An autopsy or surgical report must accompany these results. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

The PA released no autopsy on his death. (references)

Morocco

The autopsy indicated that he bled to death. (references)

Namibia

The Government announced that an autopsy showed no bullet holes in the body. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "autopsy": forensic autopsy ♦ medicolegal autopsy. Additional references.

Albanian

autopsi (dissection). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تشريح الجثة (necropsy), ‏شرح الجثة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкритикуване, аутопсия (necropsy, post mortem). (various references)

Chinese 

验尸. (various references)

Czech

podzim (autumn, fall, the sear and yellow leaf), pitva (dissection). (various references)

Danish

autopsi (post-mortem examination). (various references)

Dutch

autopsie (post-mortem examination). (various references)

Esperanto

aŭtopsio, sekcado. (various references)

Farsi 

کالبدشکافی (Dissection), تشریح مرده . (various references)

Finnish

ruumiinavaus (post-mortem). (various references)

French

autopsie. (various references)

German

sektion (department, dissection, post mortem, section), obduktion (post mortem, post mortem examination), autopsie (post mortem). (various references)

Greek 

νεκροψία (post mortem, postmortem), αυτοψία (post-mortem examination). (various references)

Hebrew 

ב�"יק�" לאחר �"מות. (various references)

Hungarian

boncolás (anatomy, dissecting, dissection, necrotomy, post mortem), tetemvizsgálat, hullaszemle, hullaboncolás (necroscopy), önszemlélet, önészlelés. (various references)

Indonesian

autopsi, bedah mayat. (various references)

Italian

autopsia (postmortem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

解剖 (dissection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したいかいぼう, ぼうけ�" (adventure, necropsy, risk, venture, watching from afar), かいぼう (coastal defense, dissection, rise), け�"あ�" (pending problem, pending question), け�"し (cuspid, dogtooth, eyetooth, fencer, inquest, investigation of death, iron purpose, silk thread). (various references)

Manx

corp-yiarrey (dissection, post mortem). (various references)

Papiamen

outopsia. (various references)

Pig Latin

autopsyay

Portuguese

autópsia (necropsy, necroscopy, postmortem), necropsia (necropsy, necroscopy). (various references)

Romanian

autopsie (post mortem, post mortem examination). (various references)

Russian 

вскрытие трупа (necropsy, necroscopy, post-mortem examination), аутопсия (necropsy, necroscopy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

autopsija (necropsy, necroscopy), obdukcija (post mortem, postmortem). (various references)

Spanish

autopsia (postmortem, postmortem examination). (various references)

Swedish

obduktion (necropsy, post mortem, postmortem, post-mortem), autopsi. (various references)

Turkish

otopsi yapmak, otopsi (post mortem, post mortem examination), bizzat inceleme. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтинати труп, розтин трупа (necropsy, necroscopy, post mortem), аутопсія (necropsy, necroscopy). (various references)

autopsia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "autopsy": autopsying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Autopsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aptopsy, atops, atopsy, aubtopsy, autoapsy, autodsy, autopcy, autoposy, autopsey, autopsi, autopsie, Dutosky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: payouts.

-1 letter: payout.

-2 letters: atopy, autos, pasty, patsy, potsy, pouts, pouty, soapy, soupy, spout, sputa, stoup, stupa, typos, yaups.

-3 letters: atop, auto, oast, oats, opts, opus, oust, outs, past, pats, paty, pays, post, posy, pots, pout, puts, pyas, soap, soup, soya, spat, spay, spot, stay, stoa, stop, taos, taps, taus, tops, toys, tups, typo, upas.

+1 letter: outplays, outprays.

+2 letters: autotypes, hypocaust.

+3 letters: autopsying, autotypies, captiously, hypocausts, polyanthus, postulancy.

+4 letters: eucalyptols, rapturously, stipulatory, sympetalous, unstoppably.

+5 letters: autohypnoses, autohypnosis, counterplays, cryptogamous, eucalyptoles, hypothalamus, lymphomatous, phytophagous, polyanthuses, polypetalous, steatopygous, supplicatory.