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postmortem

/pohst-mawr-tuhm/US // poʊstˈmɔr təm //UK // (pəʊstˈmɔːtəm) //

尸检,验尸,尸体解剖,检讨

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Medicine/Medical. a postmortem examination; autopsy.
    • : an evaluation or discussion occurring after the end or fact of something: to do a postmortem on the decision of a court.
    • : Cards. a discussion of the bidding or playing of a previous hand.

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Examples

  • Using the postmortem frontal cortex samples from three healthy individuals, they applied the method to dozens of neurons and established that up to 41% of the cells had either missing or extra gene copies.

  • Indeed, researchers would later confirm the importance of postmortem infections in Ebola’s spread.

  • They realized that if postmortem transmission — from the handling of the deceased during funerals — was a primary source of new Ebola infections, then most experts were probably assuming generation intervals for the disease that were too short.

  • One 1971 survey in the British Medical Journal found that close to half the widows in Wales and England had seen their mates postmortem.

  • There was a postmortem conversation after the seven-week program ended, but this publisher described it as “informal” and that the platform didn’t go in depth on the program’s results.

  • The gloomy postmortem has begun, but team manager Roy Hodgson is not resigning.

  • New postmortem tweeting projects are aiming to push the boundaries of life, death, and social media.

  • Postmortem examinations later showed no signs of assault or defensive wounds on her body.

  • “I have not seen an honest postmortem assessment yet,” she told me.

  • In the end I might leave one gleaming flake or so amidst the slag heaps for a moment of postmortem sympathy.

  • I think—yes—in that we would have, particularly, postmortem examined the body much more carefully than we did.

  • The failure to obtain secretin in some cases they claim is probably due to the rapid postmortem degeneration of diabetic tissue.

  • It was a constant source of surprise to his students to note how well the master's diagnosis agreed with postmortem findings.

  • Observations made postmortem showed that his clinical observations were justified by the differences observed in the organ.