postmortem examination

noun

Examples of postmortem examination in a Sentence

a coroner performed the postmortem examination with painstaking thoroughness
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While the postmortem examination took two hours to complete, Francisco decided to make a public statement about Elvis Presley‘s cause of death midway through the process without the consent of his fellow pathologists. Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024 Detective Superintendent Mike Brown of Suffolk Police said during a coroner's inquest in Ipswich on Friday, Oct. 4, that the 59-year-old was determined to have drowned following a postmortem examination, the BBC and The Guardian report. Abigail Adams, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024 The victims, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, were killed on the evening of Aug. 29 in Rafah’s Tal Al Sultan neighborhood, the Israel Defense Forces said, citing postmortem examinations of the bodies. Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024 Smith was pronounced dead and taken to the Marin County coroner’s office for a postmortem examination, officials said. Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for postmortem examination 

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First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of postmortem examination was in 1832

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“Postmortem examination.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postmortem%20examination. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.

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