Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of post mortem.
Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism.
1918, The Stratford Monthly: An International Magazine, Boston, Mass.: Stratford Company, →OCLC, page 441 more example
As the physician can obtain the faculty of making correct diagnoses of obscure diseases only by carefully attending to ante-mortem symptoms and post-mortem examinations, so the engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.
1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9
plural post-mortems
- alternativeAlternative spelling of post mortem.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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