POST-MORTEM

Definition: POST-MORTEM

POST-MORTEM

Adjective

1. After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "POST-MORTEM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Etymology: Post-mortem \Post-mor"tem\, adjective. [Latin expression, after death.]. (references)

Literature

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

Crosswords: POST-MORTEM

Romanian (post mortem).

Books

• Post-mortem tax planning (reference)

• 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).

A post-mortem scrapping match. Credit: Library of Congress.

Head of a man framed by foliage, probably a post-mortem portrait. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Health

The test can only be performed post-mortem (after the animal is dead). (references)

The virus itself may be cultured in 7 to 10 days. Immunohistochemistry performed on tissue specimens can be used to make a post-mortem diagnosis. (references)

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)

India

However, in January the NHRC requested that the Commission be informed of any custodial death within 2 months, and that a post-mortem report, magisterial inquest, and a videography of the post-mortem be provided to the NHRC. In prison women are housed separately from men, in similar conditions. (references)

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

Chinese 

死后 (postmortem). (various references)

Danish

sektion (autopsy, canal pond, canal pool, canal pound, canal reach, department, panel, post-mortem examination, section, segment), obduktion (autopsy, post-mortem examination), makropatologiske obduktionsfund (gross pathological findings at post-mortem), ligfoedsel (post-mortem birth), lagerudskriftsrutine (post-mortem routine), dødstegn (post-mortem phenomena, signs of death), autopsi (autopsy), afsluttende dump (post-mortem dump), åbning af kroppen (autopsy, post-mortem examination). (various references)

Dutch

postmortem programma (post-mortem routine), post-mortem dump (post-mortem dump), partus post mortem (post-mortem birth), sectie (section), obductio (autopsy, post-mortem examination), obductie (autopsy, post-mortem examination), nakaarten (hold a post-mortem), lijkschouwing (autopsy, post-mortem examination), autopsie (autopsy). (various references)

Esperanto

rezonadi postfakte (hold a post-mortem). (various references)

Finnish

ruumiinavaus (autopsy). (various references)

French

examen anatomo-pathologique, autopsie (post mortem). (various references)

German

Post-Mortem. (various references)

Greek 

νεκρολογική εξέτασις (autopsy, post-mortem examination), νεκροψία (autopsy, post mortem, postmortem), μεταποθήκευμα τέλους προγράμματος (post-mortem dump), μετατελεύτια ρουτίνα (post-mortem routine), αυτοψία (autopsy). (various references)

Hungarian

javítóvizsga, halottszemle (coroner's inquest, necropsy, post mortem), halottkémlés (post mortem), halál utáni (post mortem, posthumous). (various references)

Italian

programma post-mortem (post-mortem routine), perizia necroscopica (autopsy, post-mortem examination), parto post-mortem (post-mortem birth), signa mortis (post-mortem phenomena, signs of death), sectio cadaveris (autopsy, post-mortem examination), riversamento post mortem (post-mortem dump), necroscopia (autopsy, post-mortem examination), dump post mortem (post-mortem dump), autopsia (autopsy, postmortem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

検案書 (certificate of post-mortem). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

け�"あ�"しょ (certificate of post-mortem). (various references)

Pig Latin

ost-mortempay.(various references)

Portuguese

despejo post-mortem (post-mortem dump), autópsia (necropsy, necroscopy, postmortem). (various references)

Russian 

посмертный (post mortem, posthumous, postmortem). (various references)

Spanish

vaciado postmortem (post-mortem dump), rutina postmortem (post-mortem routine), rutina de autopsia (post-mortem routine), necropsia (necropsy, necroscopy), autopsia (autopsy, postmortem, postmortem examination). (various references)

Swedish

obduktion (autopsy, necropsy, post mortem, postmortem). (various references)

Misspellings

"POST-MORTEM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: postmorten, postmorteum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: postmortem.

-2 letters: promotes.

-3 letters: mooters, motmots, mottoes, oosperm, poorest, potters, promote, protest, spotter, stomper, stooper, tooters, topmost, trompes.

-4 letters: metros, momser, mooter, mopers, morose, motets, motmot, motors, mottes, mottos, otters, porose, poster, potter, pottos, presto, proems, promos, repots, respot, romeos, rottes, stoper, tempos, tempts, tooter, topers, torose, tortes, totems, toters, trompe, tromps, troops, tropes.

-5 letters: estop.

+1 letter: postmortems.

+2 letters: comportments.

+3 letters: thermotropism.

+4 letters: thermotropisms.