1. An examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
   "The autopsy revealed that the animal died from a rare infection";
   - necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination

1. (medicine) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem
   "The coroner autopsied the victim to determine the cause of death"

Derived forms: autopsied, autopsies, autopsying

Type of: examination, examine, scrutiny, see

Encyclopedia: Autopsy