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- Dictionarypost-mortem/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm/
noun
- 1. an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death: "the hospital will want to carry out a post-mortem" Similar
adjective
- 1. relating to a post-mortem: "a post-mortem report"
- 2. occurring or performed after death: "post-mortem changes in his body"
adverb
- 1. after death: "assessment of morphology in nerves taken post-mortem"
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POST-MORTEM definition: 1. a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out the cause of death: 2. a…. Learn more.
: an analysis or discussion of an event after it is over. Synonyms. Adjective. posthumous. Noun. autopsy. necropsy. postmortem examination. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of postmortem in a Sentence.
noun. /ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːtəm/ /ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːrtəm/ (also post-mortem examination) a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died synonym autopsy. to do/conduct/carry out a post-mortem. post-mortem on somebody The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned. They’re doing a post-mortem on him today.
adjective. of, relating to, or occurring in the time following death. of or relating to examination of the body after death. occurring after the end of something; after the event: a postmortem criticism of a television show.
POST-MORTEM definition: a medical examination of a dead body to find out why the person died. Learn more.
A postmortem is a medical examination of a dead body. It's a kind of autopsy done to learn exactly how the person died. In Latin, mortem is a form of the word for "death," and post means "after." A postmortem, logically enough, is something that happens after death, usually an examination.
A post-mortem is a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out how they died.
postmortem (on something) a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed to hold a postmortem on the candidate's election defeat. Check pronunciation: postmortem. Definition of postmortem noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out the cause of death: conduct a post-mortem The coroner admitted making a number of errors when he conducted the post-mortem on the woman. Synonym. autopsy. informal. a discussion of an event after it has happened, especially of what was wrong with it or why it failed:
1. countable noun. A post-mortem is a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out how they died. 2. countable noun. A post-mortem is an examination of something that has recently happened, especially something that has failed or gone wrong.
