NOUN
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
How To Use necropsy In A Sentence
- The body was transported to the Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center where a necropsy revealed the horse had broken his neck between the fourth and fifth vertebrae.
- A necropsy described the larger bear as a thousand-pound, 28-year-old male, reasonably healthy despite the fact that, like many older grizzlies, it had broken teeth.
- A standard necropsy protocol with agreed diagnostic criteria was used to ensure consistent classification.
- Results Necropsy specimens or postnatal echocardiography verified CHD in 36 fetuses with 65 segment anomalies.
- We found that a reason for performance of the necropsy was given in only 55% of the autopsies reviewed.
- It is also called a necropsy, the examination of the dead.
- None of the deaths certified as due to old age was assessed by a necropsy, and none had a coroner's inquest.
- The first doctor to determine that something was seriously wrong with the animal was the vet who performed the necropsy, after it died from pneumonia three days after its return.
- An autopsy on the whale, known as a necropsy, would have to be done to narrow down the cause of death, Anna Hall said Monday, "but I would think that based on the wounds that I saw, it was killer-whale predation. Canada.com Top Stories
- A standard necropsy protocol with agreed diagnostic criteria was used to ensure consistent classification.