Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Subsequent to death: as, a post-mortem examination of the body; post-mortem changes.
- n. A post-mortem examination; an examination of the body after death; an autopsy. Also post-obit.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of post mortem.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. After death.
WordNet 3.0
- n. discussion of an event after it has occurred
- n. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- adj. after death or after an event
- n. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- adj. occurring or done after death
- n. discussion of an event after it has occurred
Examples
“When the pig had wheezed its last breath, one man singed off its hair with a blowtorch, another gave it what I can only describe as a post-mortem enema, and its owner, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache, began to butcher it.”
“We believe all three dogs were involved in the attack, but they have to have a necropsy done" to determine that as part of the investigation, Officer Schneider said, referring to a post-mortem examination of the dogs.”
“(My apologies to the true believers who would claim that Jesus, being God, was destined to the "post-mortem" greatness he achieved).”
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“Tastefully done, just so long as there's not a series of Rick Rubin-produced Ted Stevens post-mortem albums in the works.”
“The post-mortem was that it was that it was a little too much.”
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“I am aware of reports suggesting this death is the result of a suspected drugs overdose, but would like to re-emphasize that no post-mortem has yet been done and that it would be inappropriate to speculate on the cause of death," Metropolitan Police Superintendent Raj Kohli said.”
Amy Winehouse's Cause of Death Unknown; Autopsy to be Performed Monday
“The final essential in any 50-over England team, where the captain is still required to affect an air of teeth-gritting enthusiasm, conducting his resentful post-mortem TV interviews with all the unaffected ease of Prince Charles in jeans and a blazer being forced to clap along on a balcony to Duran Duran.”
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“The challenger (convicted some years ago on tax evasion amid rumors of worse) has taken an incident of the post-mortem use of bone-chip samples — removed in a hospital — and blown it up into this ad.”
“We had all signed up with various cryonics companies, preserving our bodies – or more often, just our post-mortem, surgically-severed heads – after we died, all in the expectation that a future society would possess the technology to cure death, clone bodies and bring us back to life.”
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“It tends to squeeze all the beauty, joy and inebriating juice out of life for the sake of a perpetually unrequited promise of post-mortem salvation.”
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