autopsy
Meaning of autopsy
noun
- a post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
a Home Office pathologist carried out the autopsy
on autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a rare brain condition
- perform an autopsy on (a body or organ).
the animal must be autopsied as soon as possible
an autopsied brain
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.
Information about autopsy
- The plural form of autopsy is: autopsies.
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Hyphenation of autopsy
au-topsy
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- autopsy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
autopsy synonyms
Meaning necropsy:
Translation of autopsy
- French: autopsie, autopsier
- German: Autopsie, obduzieren
- Italian: autopsia
- Portuguese: autópsia
- Spanish: autopsia, autopsiar
Anagrams of autopsy
Words that rhyme with autopsy
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