Postmortem Definition

pōst-môrtəm
adjective
Happening, done, or made after death.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a medical examination of a dead body.
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noun

Postmortem examination.

Webster's New World
A detailed examination or evaluation of some event just ended.
Webster's New World
Alternative spelling of post mortem.
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Other Word Forms of Postmortem

Noun

Singular:
postmortem
Plural:
postmortems

Origin of Postmortem

  • Latin post mortem post afterward post– mortem accusative of mors death mer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Postmortem Sentence Examples

  • In the United States, autopsy studies for DiGeorge syndrome accounted for 0.7 percent of 3469 postmortem examinations in the Seattle, Washington, area over a period of 25 years.

  • Following a postmortem in 1838 he developed typhus and almost died.

  • A doctor can only arrange do a hospital postmortem with written consent from the next of kin.

  • Postmortem histopathology from nearly fifty years ago demonstrated the consistent presence of poliovirus lesions in specific brain areas.

  • Curiously, while the Bulgarian government had agreed to allow the German doctors to perform a postmortem, the king's own family had refused.

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PPOPOS

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MEMTEM

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