autopsy
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1. autopsy - Noun
2. autopsy - Adjective
3. autopsy - Verb
Meaning
Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
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According to a preliminary autopsy by the county medical examiner, the police officer had his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds – almost three minutes of which was after Mr Floyd became non-responsive.
A fox believed responsible was eventually shot in the area and an autopsy is expected to prove or disprove its involvement.
After reviewing the report, two forensic experts told TVN "that they are inclined to conclude that Allende was assassinated." citation *Forensic expert Luis Ravanal has been studying Allende's autopsy since 2007.
A forensic autopsy is carried out when the cause of death may be a criminal matter, while a clinical or academic autopsy is performed to find the medical cause of death and is used in cases of unknown or uncertain death, or for research purposes.
According to Koob's mother, a second autopsy revealed that she died from "blunt force trauma."
A little over a month after Nick Gordon passed away, autopsy and toxicology reports corroborate suggestions that his cardiac arrest was brought on by heroin.