do a post-mortem

Frequency: 6.02.8 per million words

A more informal way to say perform a medical examination of a dead body.

post-mortemVERB + POST-MORTEM

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Examples (10)

  • The authorities decided to do a post-mortem on the deceased.
  • The coroner will do a post-mortem to establish the exact cause of death.
  • Have they done the post-mortem yet?
  • No post-mortem was done due to religious objections.
  • It took several hours to do a thorough post-mortem.
  • The pathologist is currently doing a post-mortem on the specimen.
  • We need to do a post-mortem as soon as possible.
  • Who usually does the post-mortem examinations here?
  • If they do a post-mortem, they might find new evidence.
  • The police insisted on doing a post-mortem despite the family's wishes.