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postmortem

adjective as in following death

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noun as in analysis after death

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Cruchaga explained that similar investigations have relied on brain tissues collected postmortem, and therefore only provide information about the later stages of Alzheimer's.

The disparity between the 2016 polls and the election outcome was a “jarring event” for pollsters, as the American Assn. for Public Opinion Research put it in a postmortem.

In every losing campaign's postmortem, the analysts insist that the candidate should have gone where he or she did not.

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In Nature Neuroscience last week, the researchers reported studying samples of 151 postmortem brains, a subset of more than 700 donated by families of Black people for the project.

Limitations of the study include the inherent biases in postmortem brain research, including population selection, clinical assessment, comorbidities, and end-of-life state.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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