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autopsy

/aw-top-see, aw-tuhp-/US // ˈɔ tɒp si, ˈɔ təp- //UK // (ˈɔːtəpsɪ, ɔːˈtɒp-) //

尸检,尸体解剖,解剖,剖析

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural au·top·sies.

    • : inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
    • : an analysis of something after it has been done or made.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    au·top·sied, au·top·sy·ing.

    • : to perform an autopsy on.

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Examples

  • In a statement Thursday, authorities said his body had been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which will perform an autopsy.

  • At Grand Canyon National Park, 22 food-attracted but malnourished deer were found to have up to five pounds of plastic and foil food packaging obstructing their intestines after autopsies.

  • Some autopsies have found inflammation in the heart’s blood vessels instead of muscle cells, which are where other infections tend to hit.

  • An autopsy concluded Hernandez wasn’t physically abused before her death.

  • I was going to open up kind of the skin of the city, just like a doctor doing an autopsy opens up the skin of a body, and try to diagnose the organs that broke down.

  • They had hoped the autopsy would show Brinsley had eaten something that would point them in the right direction.

  • As an autopsy has yet to be completed, the official cause of death remains unknown.

  • An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide levels in the blood of the not-so-dearly departed.

  • The autopsy report is expected to be completed in the next 24 hours.

  • Both were looking, of course, at the same evidence, from the same autopsy.

  • Thus, to trace it, the autopsy doctors would have to find, separate or segregate a billionth bit of the mass under observation.

  • The hypodermic needle is a weapon of death which has caused autopsy physicians trouble since its invention.

  • At the autopsy it was proved conclusively that the bullet inside the Prince was of German origin.

  • I used my Security papers to get the body for special autopsy instead of the usual immediate cremation.

  • Why does the public abhor and obstruct the physician in his study of anatomy, dissection, and autopsy on the human body?