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Synonyms: Adjective
Synonyms: Noun
autopsy, necropsy, postmortem examination
Antonyms: Adjective
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postmortem tests on the brain tissue of people who had been suffering from Alzheimer's diseaseNoun
A postmortem showed that the man had been poisoned. Party leaders are conducting a postmortem of the election to try to find out what went wrong.
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Nearby, the researchers also found skulls apparently stuck together with mortar—remnants of one of the towers flanking the tzompantli, where most skulls once exhibited on its posts ended their postmortem journey. — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, "Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital," 21 June 2018 Last year, Jeff Iliff, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University, and several colleagues examined postmortem tissue from 79 human brains. — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, "Major finding in human anatomy has implications for many brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s," 21 May 2017 Last year, Jeff Iliff, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University, and several colleagues examined postmortem tissue from 79 human brains. — David Kohn, Washington Post, "When scientists saw the mouse heads glowing, they knew the discovery was big," 21 May 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Forensic pathologists who carried out the postmortem on an American biologist whose body was discovered in a Nazi bunker in Greece earlier this week told CBS News her death was far from quick. — CBS News, "American scientist murdered in Crete suffered a slow death, forensic pathologists say," 12 July 2019 As a growing number of higher-education institutions find themselves on the brink of a shutdown, however, administrators are getting savvier and more deliberate about schools’ postmortem existences. — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, "The College That Became a Prison," 12 July 2019 Alternatively, the fracture could have developed after death (postmortem). — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Study concludes 33,000-year-old skull shows signs of blunt-force trauma," 6 July 2019 These observationsare also indicative of an injury that leads to death, as opposed to occurring postmortem. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Paleolithic cold case file: Was this man murdered 33,000 years ago?," 3 July 2019 These insertions are too small to easily locate on a genome-wide basis, so his group looked for larger copy number variations (CNVs) in 110 neurons from postmortem brains. — Quanta Magazine, "I Contain Multitudes," 21 Aug. 2014 Many Congolese victims still aren’t presenting at hospitals, with 25 percent of cases only identified in postmortems. — Sally Hayden, Time, "Inside the Battle to Save Congo From the Ebola Crisis," 19 June 2019 The pucks postmortem is necessary following the Bruins falling short and getting the short end of some suspect officiating in the series, but so is a reminder of how incredibly blessed Boston sports fans and observers have been since 2002. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "To many, the Bruins’ loss is a rebalancing of the sports universe," 15 June 2019 While this study may feel like a slam dunk diagnosis, Jacinta Bowler at ScienceAlert cautions that these type of postmortem diagnoses are alway problematic. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "New Study Suggests Leonardo da Vinci Had A.D.H.D.," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'postmortem.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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