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• n  an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
• v  perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem

• It was removed during the autopsy, but it may have been buried later at Kennedy's grave site.
• An autopsy in Houston, the home town that Hughes had not visited in 21 years, ascribed it to kidney poisoning.
• His autopsy revealed that she had drunk "seven or eight" glasses of wine.

• necropsy
• postmortem
• post-mortem
• PM
• postmortem examination
• post-mortem examination

News & Articles

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• Autopsy confirms hanging cause of inmate's death
  An autopsy confirms that a Yellowstone County jail inmate died last week from hanging in an apparent suicide.
  June 12, 2013 - Montana Kaimin
• Autopsy Released On Kansas Man Found Long After Fire
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - An autopsy shows that a man whose body went undiscovered in his Wichita apartment for 12 weeks after a fire died of smoke inhalation.
  June 12, 2013 - WIBW Topeka
• Autopsy shows Stroud Twp. crash victim died of natural causes
  An autopsy performed Friday on the New Jersey man who died after crashing his car on Cherry Lane Road in Stroud Township on June 4 determined that he died of natural causes, according to Stroud Area Regional Police.
  June 12, 2013 - Pocono Record

Quotes

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• Hubert Ingraham in ABC News
  We look forward to them being able to have the autopsy today and for the coroner to be able to make a decision so the body can be released,Ingraham told reporters.
• Edward Burch in Los Angeles Times
  Early this morning, Jay died in his sleep and an autopsy is being performed,Burch told Jim DeRogatis.
• David Mamet in New Yorker
  The autopsy report was inconclusive on the cause of the death. Having met with the pathologists and other medical personnel, there is sufficient information to continue a full investigation into the circumstances of Woolmer's death which is now... Mark Shields http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shields&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHlDrs_iWmMbt7PRdyqav6yLdYvMQ Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://worldcup.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1789058.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH3Wy_3J4hi_kZZI0N3LWjUSQVGQA Mar 21, 2007 6919 10110 autosuggestion The process of magic and the process of confidence games, and to a certain extent the process of drama, are all processes of autosuggestion," Mamet said. "They cause the audience to autosuggest themselves in a way which seems perfectly...