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Definition: Postmortem |
PostmortemAdjective1. Occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds". 2. After death or after an event; "a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death"; "the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address". Noun1. Discussion of an event after it has occurred. 2. An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "postmortem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonyms: PostmortemSynonyms: postmortal (adj), autopsy (n), necropsy (n), postmortem examination (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: antemortem (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Postmortem |
| English words defined with "postmortem": postmortal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "postmortem": Continuous inspection ♦ MORGUE ATTENDANT ♦ ZOO VETERINARIAN. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | 24: The Postmortem (2002) | |
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Health | Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1620, Wepfer studied medicine and was the first to identify postmortem signs of bleeding in the brains of patients who died of apoplexy. (references) | |
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)---The sudden death of any infant or young child, which is unexplained by history and in which a thorough postmortem examination fails to demonstrate an adequate explanation of cause of death. (references) | ||
Scientists at the University of Utah are studying the structural properties of a protein known as human neuronal growth inhibitory factor (GIF) (Faller et al., 1999). GIF inhibits survival and growth of cultured neurons and has been reported to be decreased in the postmortem brains of patients with AD. GIF is a member of a class of metallothionein proteins that bind and regulate metal ions within cells. (references) | ||
Economic History | Luxembourg | Protection exists for life of the author and 50 additional years postmortem. (references) |
Human Rights | Guyana | Postmortem examinations conducted on the bodies by a government pathologist revealed that bullet wounds were the cause of death. (references) |
Women | India | In such cases, police procedures require that an officer of deputy superintendent rank or above conduct the investigation and that a team of two or more doctors perform the postmortem procedures. (references) |
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| "Postmortem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.10% of the time. "Postmortem" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.1% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "postmortem": carry out a postmortem on ♦ perform a postmortem on ♦ Postmortem Changes ♦ postmortem examination. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "postmortem": postmortem-s. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
postmortem | 345 |
photography postmortem | 12 |
postmortem through walk | 6 |
photo postmortem | 3 |
game postmortem through walk | 3 |
game postmortem | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "postmortem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحص الجثة بعد الوفاة, واقع بعد الوفاة, تال للحادثة, تشريح (anatomy, dissection, post mortem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 死后 (Post-mortem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | posmrtný (posthumous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lægevidenskabelig obduktion (postmortem study). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wetenschappelijke autopsie (postmortem study). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lääketieteellinen ruumiinavaus (postmortem study). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vidage d'autopsie (postmortem dump), sugillation cadavérique (postmortem lividity), lividité cadavérique (postmortem lividity), faire l'autopsie après le décès (carry out a postmortem on, carry out a post-mortem on), autopsie médico-scientifique (postmortem study). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | postmortal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετά θάνατον. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לאחר מות, אחרי מות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | post mortem, autopsia (autopsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 死斑 (postmortem lividity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しは" (instructor, marketing, model, postmortem lividity, private printing, purple spot, teacher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사후. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostmortempay depois da morte, autópsia (necropsy, necroscopy). (various references) посмертный (post mortem, posthumous, post-mortem). (various references) obdukovati, obdukcija (autopsy, post mortem). (various references) que sucede después de la muerte, autopsia (autopsy, postmortem examination). (various references) obduktion (autopsy, necropsy, post mortem, post-mortem), eftersnack, efterhandsundersökning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "postmortem": postmortems. (additional references) | |
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"Postmortem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: postmordem, postmortam, postmorten, postmorteum, postmortom, postmortum, postmourtem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-m-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: postmortems. | |
+2 letters: comportments. | |
+3 letters: thermotropism. | |
+4 letters: thermotropisms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74 6D 6F 72 74 65 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - -- --- .-. - . -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t m o r t e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 006D 006F 0072 0074 0065 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818586798184867179 |
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