autopsy

(noun)

A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

Related Terms

  • pathologist
  • forensic autopsy

Examples of autopsy in the following topics:

  • Autopsy

    • Autopsies are performed for either legal or medical purposes.
    • A forensic autopsy is used to determine the cause of death.
    • Clinical autopsies serve two major purposes.
    • A brain autopsy demonstrating signs of meningitis.
    • Nicolaes Tulp, by Rembrandt, depicts an autopsy.
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

    • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is marked by the sudden death of an infant that is not predicted by medical history and remains unexplained after a thorough forensic autopsy and detailed death scene investigation.
    • It should only be applied to an infant whose death is sudden and unexpected, and which remains unexplained after the performance of an adequate postmortem investigation, including: an autopsy, investigation of the death scene and circumstances of the death and exploration of the medical history of the infant and family.
  • The Complement System and Heart Disease

    • Histopathological image of myocarditis at autopsy in a patient with acute onset of congestive heart failure
  • Anatomical Position

    • The basis for the standard anatomical position in humans comes from the supine position used for examining human cadavers during autopsies.
  • Defective Viruses

    • Cirrhosis leading to hepatocellular carcinoma (autopsy specimen).
  • Aging and the Cardiovascular System

    • Autopsy specimen.
  • Empress Maria-Theresa

    • Following his recommendation, she made a decree that autopsies would be mandatory for all hospital deaths in the city of Graz, Austria's second largest city.
    • This law – still in effect today – combined with the relatively stable population of Graz, resulted in one of the most important and complete autopsy records in the world. 
  • The Role of Women in the Colonies

    • Ballard was sometimes called to observe autopsies, and she also took testimonies from unwed mothers that were used in paternity suits.
  • Arrhythmia

    • SADS, or sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, is a term (as part of sudden unexpected death syndrome) used to describe sudden death due to cardiac arrest brought on by an arrhythmia in the absence of any structural heart disease on autopsy.
  • Scenario

    • As the students developed their ideas, they realized that they would need to obtain water samples from the water filtration plant, various locations in the river, and from the town's tap water; air samples from the factory; autopsy results from samples of dead fish from the river; and toxin analysis records from the county's environmental health office.
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