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autopsy

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"Postmortem examination"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aopstuyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

Word origin

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

Used in a sentence

  • The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.
  • This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.
  • The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.

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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

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