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post-mortem | American Dictionary

post-mortem
noun[ C ]
us/poʊstˈmɔr·t̬əm/
a medical examination of a dead body to discover the cause of death, or a discussion of an event after it has happened:
The disease can be confirmed only in a post-mortem.
a post-mortem on Harkin’s presidential campaign

Examples of post-mortem

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Salvation for any given individual is always a real possibility at any time, either in the earthly or the post-mortem existence.
For the current study, isolation sites included blood (n=18), multiple organs post-mortem (n=2), and amniotic fluid or placenta (n=2).
At post-mortem, all other organs were grossly normal.
It is recognised that this may represent an underestimate of the incidence as some cases will only be diagnosed at post-mortem.
The message traffic in a run of the system is logged and can be used for post-mortem debugging and even replaying entire sessions.
That the resulting improvised 'lecture' may not always withstand in every detail a critical post-mortem is perhaps beside the point.
The trilobites are disarticulated and generally fragmentary, which may indicate that they have been subjected to post-mortem transport.
Analysis of post-mortem inventories suggests that retirement payments in kind to elderly parents could include sufficient seed grain to sow a medium-size farm.
At post-mortem, some small focal areas of hepatization and emphysema were seen on the lungs of all infected animals.
Future (post-mortem) research is necessary to clarify the underlying mechanisms of increased gray-matter volume and disproportionally enlarged ventricles in patients found in the present study.
The size and fibre composition of the corpus callosum with respect to gender and schizophrenia : a post-mortem study.
Since all animals used in the experiment were owned by a private farmer the calves were not available for post-mortem analysis.
Most recently, post-mortem surveys have been conducted with close relatives of deceased members of the cohorts.
This pathological process is very common in old age, found in post-mortem in around twothirds of those who do not have dementia.
When examined post-mortem, the right-hand major and minor pectoral muscles were dissected from the carcass and immediately weighed.
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