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.
  • Anatomical Position

    • The basis for the standard anatomical position in humans comes from the supine position used for examining human cadavers during autopsies.
  • Aging and the Cardiovascular System

    • Autopsy specimen.
  • 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.
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