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Post-mortem   /poʊst-mˈɔrtəm/   Listen
Post-mortem

noun
1.
Discussion of an event after it has occurred.  Synonym: postmortem.
2.
An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease.  Synonyms: autopsy, necropsy, PM, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination.



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"Post-mortem" Quotes from Famous Books



... neck also leaps down from it, and they move gingerly towards the puppy. A little while ago the motor-bus might have overturned a human cyclist or so, and proceeded nonchalant on its way. But now even a puppy requires a post-mortem: such is the force of public opinion aroused. Two policemen ...
— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett

... being called, described a personal peculiarity, which he had noticed at the post-mortem examination, and which might lead to the identification ...
— I Say No • Wilkie Collins

... tried to rouse him, but could not. A doctor who was called pronounced that he was suffering from some sort of poisoning. He was taken to St. George's Hospital in an ambulance, but he never recovered. The post-mortem investigation showed a small scratch on the palm of the hand. That scratch had been produced by a pin or a needle which had been infected by one of the newly discovered poisons which, administered secretly, give a post-mortem appearance of ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux

... post-mortem in Emma's bright little office, and that lady herself seemed to be strangely sunny and undaunted, considering the completeness of her defeat. She sat at her desk now, very interested, very bright-eyed, very calm. Buck, in a chair at the ...
— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber

... problems of the cerebrum and cerebellum. They have ascertained, by long ages of observation and experimenting, the exact effect of every kind of impulse on the brain matter. The experts are able to tell, at a post-mortem examination, what kinds of thinking were most prevalent during the subject's life, just as easily as we can judge the great or little use of the arm by an ...
— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris


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