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- verb Present participle of
autopsy .
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Examples
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“Phillips is autopsying her, and he photocopied me a rough chart based on his exterior exam.”
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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Some decry the practice of autopsying the dead as "state-sponsored terrorism."
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COOPER: Also, the news that they're going to be autopsying all of the minors -- from an autopsy, what can they determine about the time of death, the cause of death -- I mean, how much information can they glean?
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We are actually autopsying every person who was in a nursing home or every person who was in a hospital, who was recovering from the hospital, not just in a hospital.
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Even the tekkies who had been busy autopsying the thing had stopped, were staring at the two men.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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Wildlife monitor the fish's progress and are now autopsying the three that have died so far.
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University of Chicago pediatric neurologist Dr. Peter Huttenlocher has chronicled this extraordinary epoch in brain development by autopsying the brains of infants and young children who have died unexpectedly.
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Twice in my career, I have discovered unsuspected gunshot wounds while autopsying alleged victims of traffic accidents.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Media have spent four years autopsying his behavior that season and in Sestriere -- the late nights out during the Games, the dismissive, mean-spirited answers to relatively innocent questions.
SI.com 2010
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Twice in my career, I have discovered unsuspected gunshot wounds while autopsying alleged victims of traffic accidents.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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