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

Usage examples of postmortem.

Menstruation after hysterectomy and ovariotomy has been attributed to the incomplete removal of the organs in question, yet upon postmortem examination of some cases no vestige of the functional organs in question has been found.

The accompanying illustration exhibits a typical case verified by postmortem examination.

Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his premortem theoretical calculations and postmortem practical measurements hardly varied.

Bonafaci gave his OK for the bodies to be transported to Wenatchee to await postmortem examinations.

She died shortly after, and it was discovered at the postmortem examination that she had a disease of the brain which caused her extreme propensity to sleep.

Whenever possible Claudine had always attended postmortems, prompting tests and examinations to answer her own special and sometimes peculiar questions, as well as those of the pathologist.

She seemed completely ignorant of how much can be determined through postmortem examinations and blood and urine tests.

The Vulcan security scanners are undoubtedly programmed to detect postmortem decay.

To do what he did to the victim, both antemortem and postmortem, he also had to have a house or apartment of his own.

His body now lay motionless in the Bollman Funeral Home, awaiting a postmortem exam that might answer some of the many questions about his death.

He backgrounded the process and divided his focus between the laboratory—where Gabe was conducting a postmortem on yet another batch of nanite victims of sudden-biomechanical-autism-syndrome—and the captain's office.

A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem ex­aminations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.

A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem examinations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.

Hart was so badly burned, he could be identified only by striking similarities of tooth root and trabecular alveolar bone points in antemortem and postmortem radiographs.

I notice, by the way, that it is ordinary white arsenious acid, without any mixture of charcoal or indigo, which agrees with what was found at the postmortem.