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• n  discussion of an event after it has occurred
• n  an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

• Even a graceful loser must endure the inevitable round of post-mortems conducted by second-guessers who think they know why he lost or how he might have won.

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

News & Articles

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• Jerry Micco's sports chat transcript: 6.12.13
  Hot topics in this week's chat: Penguins post-mortem, Cole's Pirates debut and Pitt re-ups Pederson.
  June 12, 2013 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• IMF’s own Greece post-mortem shows why it should have steered clear of the euro crisis
  In March 2012, Greece became the first modern, advanced economy to default on its debts since World War II. On Wednesday, the IMF published a post-mortem (pdf) about its attempts to bail out the country ...
  June 6, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Mark Shields in Independent Online
  The post-mortem into the death of Mr Woolmer was inconclusive,said Mark Shields, the deputy chief commissioner of the Jamaican police force.
• Soren Kjeldsen in CNN
  For me it was sort of a post-mortem Ryder Cup thing,said Kjeldsen. "I desperately wanted to get on the team but I didn't make it and it knocked me a bit. It took me a while to get things into perspective and get on with it."
• Amitabh Bachchan in Daily News & Analysis
  The post-mortem report has confirmed that she committed suicide by hanging herself. We are still investigating the motives which could have led her to take the extreme step,additional police commissioner (west) Amitabh Gupta told IANS.