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autopsy - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Examination of a cadaver to determine or confirm the cause of death.
- noun A critical assessment or examination after the fact.
- transitive verb To subject to an autopsy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seeing for one's self; personal ocular observation, inspection, or examination. Specifically
- noun In pathology and anatomy, dissection and inspection of a dead body to discover the cause of death, or the site and character of the disease of which the person died; post-mortem examination; a post-mortem.
- To make a post-mortem examination of; perform an autopsy on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
- noun (Med.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A dissection performed on a
cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death. - noun An
after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure. - verb transitive To perform an autopsy on.
- verb transitive To perform an
after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem
- noun an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek autopsiā, a seeing for oneself : auto-, auto- + opsis, sight; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψία (autopsia, "seeing with one's own eyes").
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URIBE: Your honor, I would just bring up the fact that whether or not that was a condition of these, of the agreement, whether or not that's used for the term autopsy photo or refers to the autopsy photos in the report.
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The term autopsy is intrinsic to the resources provided and should lead to consistent conversions.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows aaronthinks 2010
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The term autopsy, derived from Greek, essentially means to see for oneself.
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Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham sent condolences to the Travolta family and said the autopsy is a formality the country requires in cases of sudden death to rule out foul play.
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The word autopsy comes from the Greek “to see for oneself”; as Vesalius learned to see for himself, he could no longer force Galen’s mystical visions to fit his own.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The word autopsy comes from the Greek “to see for oneself”; as Vesalius learned to see for himself, he could no longer force Galen’s mystical visions to fit his own.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The word autopsy comes from the Greek “to see for oneself”; as Vesalius learned to see for himself, he could no longer force Galen’s mystical visions to fit his own.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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An autopsy is planned for later this week, with an official LAPD investigation also underway.
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They are professional and standard creating, analyzing past life, as an autopsy is to breathing.
July 2008 2008
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Interesting that Jordanian born Zarqawi is supposed to have an artificial leg, but NO mention in autopsy?
Think Progress » Bush Officials Stoke International Outrage Over Guantanamo Suicides 2006
Related Words
synonyms (41)
Words with the same meaning
- canvass
- check
- check out
- check over
- check up on
- coroner
- examine
- give an examination
- go over
- inquest
- inspect
- look at
- look over
- medical examiner
- monitor
- mortality committee
- necropsy
- necroscopy
- necrotomy
- observe
- overhaul
- overlook
- pass over
- pass under review
- peer at
- peruse
- pore over
- post
- postmortem
- postmortem examination
- review
- run over
- scan
- scrutinize
- set an examination
- size
- size up
- study
- survey
- take stock of
- take the measure
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