post mortem
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Meaning
- adjective After death.
The hospice's standard procedure for post mortem room cleaning looks very thorough.
- adjective Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.
We shouldn't let these post mortem injuries distract us while looking for the cause of death.
- adverb Occurring after death.
The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
- noun An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- noun Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
- noun At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
Similar words
postmortem forensic necropsy autopsy dissection bilan mortem post-mortem antemortem posthumous
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