postmortem

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"For researchers who study autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, postmortem brain tissue is a critical scientific resource that cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence, imaging technologies, or even animal experiments," explained David G. Amaral, Ph.D.,

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

A postmortem examination identified that Frost suffered from significant cardiac disease and significant vascular disease.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

After their son died, Charlie and Fiona Bass flew in Van de Goot, the Dutch pathologist, to conduct a specialist postmortem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

In the postmortem, there will always be someone like economist Roger Babson in September 1929 who will be able to say, “I told you so.”

From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025

“Resch will have a postmortem run on me, the same as your lab ran on Polokov. And he’ll still insist on a—what did you call it—Boneli Reflex-Arc Test on you and on himself.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick