POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION

Definition: POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION

POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION

1. (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION

Books

• The Removal, Retention and Use of Human Organs and Tissue from Post-Mortem Examination (reference)

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

Pictured are various slides of woodchucks. These animals carry a Hepatitis B-like virus in their blood and are being studied to understand the link of virus to liver cancer. Post-mortem examination indicates that about 25% of the woodchucks die of liver cancer and have the virus in their blood samples. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

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

Human Rights

Jamaica

A post-mortem examination of the three showed no evidence of poison. (references)

Guyana

The family of the deceased received permission for an overseas pathologist to do a second post-mortem examination, which was conducted in August and reportedly confirmed that the three men died of gunshot wounds. (references)

Botswana

The GPVC report cited the suspicious deaths in prison of two inmates in 1999. The Commissioner stated that a post-mortem examination conducted by medical authorities in 1999 supported prison officials' statements that Boitumelo Nthoiwa died of pneumonia and Andrew Molefe died after taking an illegal substance smuggled in by another inmate. (references)

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

Danish

sektion (autopsy, canal pond, canal pool, canal pound, canal reach, department, panel, section, segment), obduktion (autopsy), autopsi (autopsy), åbning af kroppen (autopsy). (various references)

Dutch

sectie (section), obductio (autopsy), obductie (autopsy), lijkschouwing (autopsy), autopsie (autopsy). (various references)

French

ouverture du corps. (various references)

German

Körperöffnung (autopsy, orifice). (various references)

Greek 

νεκρολογική εξέτασις (autopsy), νεκροψία (autopsy, post mortem, postmortem), αυτοψία (autopsy). (various references)

Hungarian

halottszemlét tart (to hold a post-mortem, to hold a post-mortem examination, to hold an inquest on a body), boncolást végez (to hold a post-mortem, to hold a post-mortem examination). (various references)

Italian

perizia necroscopica (autopsy), sectio cadaveris (autopsy), necroscopia (autopsy), autopsia (autopsy, postmortem). (various references)

Pig Latin

ost-mortempay examinationay

Portuguese

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

Russian 

вскрытие трупа (autopsy, necropsy, necroscopy). (various references)

Spanish

necropsia (necropsy, necroscopy), autopsia (autopsy, postmortem, postmortem examination). (various references)

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