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postmortem

[pohst-mawr-tuhm] / poʊstˈmɔr təm /
ADJECTIVE
following death
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NOUN
analysis after death
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There was no evidence of drugs in Noah's body during the postmortem.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

In the immediate aftermath of the repeal of the proposed legislation, this academic postmortem, published in the monthly peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, speculated that the MCCA’s failure was, indeed, partly due to financial reasons.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

So every year, we come in and we sort of have to gut-check ourselves and do a postmortem on the season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The researchers detected high levels of this altered form, known as SNO-STING, in postmortem brain tissue from people with Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

“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




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