autopsies

Corpse medical investigations

Autopsies is the plural of autopsy, a medical examination of a corpse to determine cause of death.

The procedure involves systematic inspection of organs and tissues, performed by a pathologist.

Autopsies may be required by law in suspicious deaths or requested by families seeking answers: The autopsies revealed traces of poison.

medical

postmortem

Examination after death

pathologist · morgue · cadaver · tissue · organs · incision · toxicology · cause of death · forensic · body

forensic

investigation

Formal examination of facts

detective · murder · suspicious death · legal · testimony · court · criminal · police · documentation · photography

figurative

analysis

Methodical study of parts

dissection · failure · project · breakdown · assessment · evaluation · critique · retrospective · investigation · lessons learned

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subject status

autopsiesphysical examinations

Medical assessments of health

physicals · clinical examinations · health screenings · medical assessments · annual checkups

temporal relationship to death

autopsiespreventive care

Health maintenance before disease

early intervention · prenatal care · neonatal care · life-saving procedures · resuscitations

purpose and outcome

autopsiestreatments

Approaches to healing illness

therapies · cures · surgeries · rehabilitations · preventive medicine

Family

autopsy

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