postmortem examination

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsautopsynecropsypostmortempost-mortemPMpost-mortem examination

   Broaderexamination

Questions about postmortem examination

What does postmortem examination mean?

postmortem examination means "an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease".

What is another word for postmortem examination?

Close synonyms include autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is postmortem examination a common word?

postmortem examination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.