Meanings
- archaicnot comparableArchaic spelling of premortem.
The præ-mortem and the post-mortem heat mutually illustrate one another.
1846 January, B. Dowler, “Part I.—Original Communications”, “Art. V.—On Febrile Caloricity”, in Charles A. Lee, editor, The New York Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences, volume VI, New York: J. & H. G. Langley, […], page 582 more examples
It is obvious that statistical deductions such as I have described above must not be derived from selected cases, neither must they rest on the frail foundation of præ-mortem diagnosis.
1853 April, Thomas K. Chambers, “Part Third. Original Communications”, “Art. I. Decennium Pathologicum; or, Contributions to the History of Chronic Disease, from the St. George’s Hospital Records of Fatal Cases during Ten Years”, in The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, London: Samuel Highley, […]; and John Churchill, […], “Part II.—Diseases of the Kidneys”, page 490There were some old pericarditic adhesions over the left side of the left ventricle, and on separating these the heart-wall was torn through, and from the adherent infiltrated clot it was evident that at least a partial præ-mortem tearing of the heart-wall had occurred here, and perhaps complete perforation at a small rent, permitting of a slight hæmorrhage at the time of the collapse, 17 days before death.
1885 January, “Part IV.—Notes and News”, in D. Hack Tuke, Geo. H. Savage, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XXX, London: J. and A. Churchill, […], page 642
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