mortem
Phrases with the word
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To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
A post mortem gave the primary cause of death as pneumonia, with pressure on the brain and a fatty liver as contributing factors.
A post mortem examination conducted on Singh found that he died from brain haemorrhage and blunt trauma to the head, compounded by compression injuries to the neck.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, Vol. 6, No. 275, page 159. A comprehensive overview of their children can be seen in the records of numerous inquisitions post mortem that were held after the death of their son Giles on 7 June 1338.
Canter, pp. 5–6 Bond's assessment was based on his own examination of the most extensively mutilated victim and the post mortem notes from the four previous canonical murders.
Because of the bleeding tendency of yellow fever patients, a biopsy is only advisable post mortem to confirm the cause of death.