Postmortem Synonyms and Antonyms

pōst-môrtəm
Occurring or done after death
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. posthumous
  2. postmortal
Antonyms:
  1. antemortem
An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. autopsy
  2. post mortem
  3. necropsy
  4. pm
  5. postmortem examination
  6. post-mortem examination

Words Related to Postmortem

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Postmortem Sentence Examples

  • In the United States, autopsy studies for DiGeorge syndrome accounted for 0.7 percent of 3469 postmortem examinations in the Seattle, Washington, area over a period of 25 years.

  • Following a postmortem in 1838 he developed typhus and almost died.

  • A doctor can only arrange do a hospital postmortem with written consent from the next of kin.

  • Postmortem histopathology from nearly fifty years ago demonstrated the consistent presence of poliovirus lesions in specific brain areas.

  • Curiously, while the Bulgarian government had agreed to allow the German doctors to perform a postmortem, the king's own family had refused.

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