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Postmortem Examination

Definition: Postmortem Examination

Postmortem Examination

Noun

1. 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.
 


Synonyms: Postmortem Examination

Synonyms: autopsy (n), necropsy (n), postmortem (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Postmortem Examination

English words defined with "postmortem examination": postmortal, postmortem. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Postmortem Examination

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cap Handbook for Postmortem Examination of Unidentified Remains: Developing Identification of Well-Preserved, Decomposed, Burned, and Skeletonized re (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Postmortem Examination

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Health

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)

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

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Modern Translation: Postmortem Examination

Language Translations for "postmortem examination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

autopsia (autopsy, postmortem). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: Postmortem Examination


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 73 74 6D 6F 72 74 65 6D      45 78 61 6D 69 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01000101 01111000 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#109 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#109 &#32 &#69 &#120 &#97 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0073 0074 006D 006F 0072 0074 0065 006D      0045 0078 0061 006D 0069 006E 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081858679818486717923990677975806786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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