Meaning

3 senses
  1. A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

    The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.

    Obduktion, Autopsie, Sektion

    вскры́тиеvskrýtije, аутопси́яautopsíja

    аутопсі́яautopsíja, ро́зтинróztyn

    an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

  2. (figuratively)An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.

  3. (rare)An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

    Augenzeugenbericht, Schilderung eines Augenzeugen

Examples

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  1. Have you seen the autopsy report?

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  2. Have you read the autopsy report?

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  3. I'd like a copy of the autopsy report.

    ruЯ бы хотел получить копию протокола о вскрытии.

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  4. Tom's autopsy revealed that he died from an overdose.

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  5. The autopsy confirmed that Tom died from a gunshot wound.

    ruВскрытие подтвердило, что Том умер от огнестрельного ранения.

    deDie Obduktion bestätigte, dass Tom an einer Schussverletzung starb.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a dissection performed on a cadaver:
Русский
By meaning 1
a dissection performed on a cadaver:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a dissection performed on a cadaver:
eyewitness observation:

Origin

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own ey

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

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Forms

plural: autopsies

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

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