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AUTOPSY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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; post-mortem examination; postmortem; postmortem examination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("autopsy" is a kind of...):

examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))

Derivation:

autopsy (perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "autopsy" is one way to...):

examine; see (observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

autopsy (an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease)

Credits

 Context examples: 

TNM staging performed on autopsy.

(Autopsy TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

In a lump; as a whole; used to refer to autopsy techniques in which visceral organs are removed in large blocks allowing the prosector to retain a continuity in organ architecture during the subsequent dissection.

(En Bloc, NCI Thesaurus)

Trained personnel coordinate the retrieval, preservation and delivery of specimens obtained from surgical resections and from autopsies.This resource provides normal, benign, pre-cancerous and cancerous human tissue to the scientific community for basic and developmental studies in many areas of cancer research.

(Cooperative Human Tissue Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Alzheimer's is a clinical disorder partially confirmed at autopsy by the co-occurrence in the brain of two proteins: amyloid beta, and a second called tau.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

Moreover, their brain scans and autopsy studies of brains from nonhuman primates confirmed the results seen in humans, suggesting the lymphatic system is a common feature of mammalian brains.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)

Along with autopsy results, a diagnosis of Alzheimer's requires data from behavioral and cognitive testing to determine whether amyloid beta and tau lesions are associated with cognitive decline.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)