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autopsy

noun
🔊/ˈɔːtɒpsi/
🔊/ˈɔːtɑːpsi/
(plural autopsies)
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  1. an official examination of a dead body by a specially trained doctor in order to discover the cause of death 验尸；尸体解剖synonym post-mortem
    • an autopsy report验尸报告
    • to perform an autopsy进行尸体剖验
    Extra Examples
    • The autopsy revealed that he had been poisoned.尸检表明他是被毒死的。
    • The diagnosis was confirmed by autopsy.诊断结果得到了尸体剖检的证实。
    • They carried out an autopsy on the victim.他们对遇害者进行了尸体剖检。
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + autopsy
    • carry out
    • conduct
    • do
    • …
    autopsy + verb
    • find something
    • reveal something
    • show something
    • …
    autopsy + noun
    • findings
    • report
    • results
    • …
    preposition
    • autopsy on
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    Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.