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Definition of Postmortem examination

1. Noun. An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postmortem Examination

Literary usage of Postmortem examination

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"The cocci found in the spleen and blood at the time of the postmortem examination may have been thrown out from a few cocci left in some part of the ..."

2. Guatemala, Getting Away with Murder: An Americas Watch and Physicians for ...by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1991)
"This proposed model autopsy protocol includes a comprehensive checklist of the steps in a basic forensic postmortem examination that should be followed to ..."

3. Medical Men and the Law by Hugh Emmett Culbertson (1913)
"A physician, however, who makes a postmortem examination in the usual manner and in pursuance of the authority of the coroner is ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"postmortem examination revealed greatly enlarged spleen and liver, the latter showing amyloid changes, but not siderosis; no enlarged lymph glands. ..."

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