postmortem examination

English Thesaurus

1. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease (noun.act)

hypernym	:	examination, scrutiny,
definition	:	the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) (noun.act)

derivation	:	autopsy,
definition	:	perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem (verb.perception)

derivation	:	autopsy,
definition	:	perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem (verb.perception)