postmortem

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a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out the cause of death:

conduct a post-mortem The coroner admitted making a number of errors when he conducted the post-mortem on the woman.

a discussion of an event after it has happened, especially of what was wrong with it or why it failed:

After we lose a game, there's usually a post-mortem over a few beers.

happening or taken after a person or animal dies:

post-mortem examination A post-mortem examination failed to find the cause of death.

The majority of the published studies have been performed using post-mortem tissues.

Often, sudden death is the first sign of the condition, with the diagnosis made postmortem.

a medical examination of a dead body to discover the cause of death, or a discussion of an event after it has happened:

The disease can be confirmed only in a post-mortem.

a post-mortem on Harkin’s presidential campaign