[
US
/poʊstˈmɔɹtɛm/
]
NOUN
- discussion of an event after it has occurred
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
How To Use post-mortem In A Sentence
- The doctor who performed the post-mortems on the bodies of the family is due to testify on Tuesday.
- He carried out a post-mortem examination.
- In October he issued a report to the police estimating a post-mortem interval of 24 hours.
- Routine post-mortem testing did not rule out BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow.
- She said a post-mortem examination revealed he had suffered ‘a massive heart attack’ caused by a heart abnormality.
- If they get proper consent, then nothing prevents pathologists from carrying out post-mortems.
- The festival is planned for this year only; a post-mortem will decide if an annual event is feasible.
- A post-mortem examination later found that the animal had been suffering from chronic pneumonia and pericarditis, an inflammation of the membranes of the heart.
- The body of the mother otter was sent for post-mortem examination to try to establish how old the cubs might be.
- As I remarked in my post at the time, if anything is to be learnt in the post-mortems, it is that there is plenty of failure all round for all sides to digest.