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• n  an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

• Wolves wait to undergo a necropsy at the US Fish and Wildlife Service forensics laboratory.
• After receiving necropsy results, the district attorney decided not to file charges when authorities couldn't prove whom the ferrets belonged to--Tyson or the assistant.
• On the coast, a shark washed ashore recently, but a necropsy didn't find any human bones inside.

• autopsy
• postmortem
• post-mortem
• PM
• postmortem examination
• post-mortem examination

News & Articles

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• Biologists perform necropsy on stranded, dead mother, baby whales
  Posted by Miranda Grossman / CBS12 News FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Biologists at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce are performing a necropsy on two pygmy sperm whales, to try and figure out why the mammals beached themselves in Jupiter yesterday. ...
  June 11, 2013 - WPEC CBS12 West Palm Beach
• Woodbine barn under quarantine after filly's death
  ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s Barn 1 was under a voluntary quarantine Tuesday, pending the results of a necropsy on a filly who died in her stall Monday morning.
  June 11, 2013 - Daily Racing Form
• Stranded orcas hold critical clues for scientists
  DAVIS — The development of a standardized killer-whale necropsy system has boosted the collection of complete data from killer-whale strandings from 2 percent to about 33 percent, according to a recent study from a team of scientists, including a University of California, Davis, wildlife veterinarian.
  June 10, 2013 - UC Newsroom

Quotes

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• Antonio Villaraigosa in TIME
  LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa asked the city for "an independent, timely and exhaustive necropsy of Gita to determine the cause of Gita's death."