conduct a post-mortem

Frequency: 6.83.5 per million words

To formally perform a medical examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.

post-mortemVERB + POST-MORTEM

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conduct

Examples (10)

  • The coroner will conduct a post-mortem to determine the exact cause of death.
  • Police requested that a forensic pathologist conduct a post-mortem on the victim.
  • It was deemed necessary to conduct a post-mortem before the burial could proceed.
  • The medical examiner routinely conducts post-mortems on suspicious deaths.
  • Who is qualified to conduct a post-mortem examination in this case?
  • The team of specialists had to conduct a post-mortem on the rare animal.
  • They will conduct a post-mortem this afternoon, and the results should be available next week.
  • In cases of unexpected death, it is standard procedure to conduct a post-mortem.
  • The family refused permission to conduct a post-mortem, citing religious beliefs.
  • Had they conducted a post-mortem earlier, the anomaly might have been discovered.