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单词 post-mortem
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Definition of post-mortem in English:

post-mortem

noun pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm
  • 1An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.

    验尸

    the hospital will want to carry out a post-mortem
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were no signs of injury on the his body and a post-mortem examination failed to establish a cause of death.
    • His body was brought to Sligo General Hospital where a post-mortem was carried out yesterday, Monday.
    • A post-mortem on her body has ‘proved inconclusive’, said a spokeswoman.
    • A post-mortem revealed that he died as a result of complications from head injuries.
    • But there was heartbreak for other families where organs were taken from dead children following coroners' post-mortems.
    • If they get proper consent, then nothing prevents pathologists from carrying out post-mortems.
    • A post-mortem on her body revealed that she was four months pregnant at the time of her death.
    • The officer being interviewed by reporters said that they wouldn't know the exact time of death until a post-mortem was performed, but their best guess was some time in the last few hours.
    • We can't speculate as to the cause of death and a post-mortem is yet to be scheduled.
    • Days after the discovery a post-mortem was performed, toxicology and DNA tests ordered.
    • A post-mortem is due to be held today, but last night the cause of death remained unclear.
    • He insisted that following his death his post-mortem should be performed in front of his own medical staff and published in the local weekly journal.
    • A post-mortem revealed that the dead man had been hit on the side of the head with a blunt instrument before being strangled and dismembered.
    • The post-mortems showed that their deaths were all due to arsenic poisoning.
    • The doctor who performed the post-mortems on the bodies of the family is due to testify on Tuesday.
    • Some hospital deaths, however, must be reported to the Procurator Fiscal whether there is clinical interest in the post-mortem examination or not.
    • People can object, but if the coroner considers that any delay may limit the ability to determine the cause of death, then the post-mortem will go ahead.
    • A post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death was due to be carried out today by a Home Office pathologist.
    • The post-mortem revealed that death was due to powerful electric shock, not because of burns.
    Synonyms
    autopsy, post-mortem examination, PM, dissection, necropsy
    1. 1.1 An analysis or discussion of an event held soon after it has occurred, especially in order to determine why it was a failure.
      事后分析,事后检讨
      an election post-mortem on why the party lost

      关于政党落选原因的事后检讨。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The festival is planned for this year only; a post-mortem will decide if an annual event is feasible.
      • If they don't we'll be holding this same post-mortem in 2006.
      • The party will hold its post-mortem on the election and the loss of support in its traditional heartlands.
      • As I remarked in my post at the time, if anything is to be learnt in the post-mortems, it is that there is plenty of failure all round for all sides to digest.
      • The party is continuing its election post-mortem, and one area under scrutiny is its media policy.
      • His performance quickly became the subject of ridicule in media post-mortems of the event.
      • The players huddled together here after a match for a post-mortem of the game, analysing and discussing, striving to iron out the flaws.
      • He's quite right, and indeed my post-mortem analysis gave White a small edge.
      • Els, though, exhibited the fortitude to hold his own when others were holding post-mortems.
      • Then why this grand spectacle, starting from titillating anticipation to frenzied post-mortems after the budget is unveiled?
      • When I agreed to do a post-mortem on the Saskatchewan provincial election, I initially thought I would just do a ‘report.’
      • Since 9 October we have had the usual stream of election post-mortems.
      • If vote-splitting is not an issue for discussion in the election post-mortem, then proportional representation should be.
      • And with everyone back safely from the first run of the event, the post-mortems continue.
      Synonyms
      analysis, evaluation, assessment, appraisal, examination, review, investigation, breakdown, critique, study
      rare anatomization
adjective pəʊs(t)ˈmɔːtəm
  • 1attributive Relating to a post-mortem.

    (与)验尸(有关)的;(与)事后(有关)的

    a post-mortem report

    验尸报告。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was not about the clinical post-mortem measurement of her cerebral functionality.
    • The results of forensic post-mortem tests showed the babies died from septicaemia caused by enterobacter bacteria.
    • In October he issued a report to the police estimating a post-mortem interval of 24 hours.
    • The post-mortem test revealed that one of her sons was suffering from an infection.
    • When the police brandished a post-mortem report which exonerated the cops from point-blank range killing, didn't we react by saying that the autopsy must have been fixed?
    • It is recorded in my post-mortem notes that he had been shot twice.
    • A post-mortem study of the animals showed a robust growth of neurons and an increase in neurotransmitters in the spinal cords of rats that received the transplanted neuronal cells.
    • Irish hospitals have only apologised for the trauma caused by media disclosures about post-mortem practices.
    • An example would be Alzheimer's disease, for which there is no good test but highly reliable post-mortem findings.
    • Depending on the strain of virus and how it reacts, post-mortem findings are very variable.
    • A post-mortem report revealed she had drowned.
    • They said clinical and post-mortem studies were needed to look at the causes of this kind of bleeding in the eye and how it could be linked to abusive head injury.
    • This difference is probably attributable to the fact that the abdomen can undergo post-mortem telescoping.
    • We suspect septicemia because of the maggot bites and the conditions in which he was found but we can only tell once the post-mortem results are in.
    • A post-mortem report records that she died from pulmonary barotrauma, which causes air bubbles to circulate in the arterial system.
    • Routine post-mortem testing did not rule out BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow.
    • The minister said the first report would deal with post-mortem issues in paediatric hospitals.
    • There are no tests to confirm it in living cows or humans; the only reliable way is to conduct a post-mortem exam.
    • A postmortem examination revealed she had taken a cocktail of paracetamol and sleeping tablets.
    • The post-mortem toxicological report confirmed the 45-year-old's cause of death was a drug overdose of morphine and fluoxetine prescribed for her anxiety.
    1. 1.1 Happening after death.
      死后的
      post-mortem changes in his body

      其身体在死后的变化。

      as adverb assessment of morphology in nerves taken post-mortem

      死后所做的神经形态评估。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many of the interior molds exhibit evidence of post-mortem distortion prior to preservation and solution of the carapace.
      • However, this morphological pattern might result from post-mortem muscle contraction.
      • Thurlbeck and Muller quantified the extent of emphysema by imaging the post-mortem lung.
      • A post-mortem declaration of genius, by its very nature, falls on the deafened ears of the one who wishes to hear it the most.
      • On the other hand it is often difficult to tell whether the chemical and structural changes observed during the various types of cell death are pre- or post-mortem events.
      • A third controversy concerns attempts to show that even if the dead cannot be harmed, the harm thesis is correct, since death, and some post-mortem events, harm the living.
      • Few sporadic reports describe post-mortem changes in human brain of heat stress victims.
      • And when we were diagnosing them clinically one quarter of all children were actually dead and diagnosed post-mortem one way or another.
      • Many of the specimens show contraction and coiling that is probably a post-mortem feature caused by dehydration in the brine and subsequent contraction of ligaments.
      • Researchers verified blood vessels and other markings to make sure they were relevant brain components and not simply artifacts left by a post-mortem impact.
      • Second, the tissues that have been through programmed senescence and death, instead of disappearing through post-mortem decay, persist as mummified corpses - namely as wood.
      • Besides, it is necessary to assess post-mortem colonization of the shells or movement of the hosts once the animal died.
      • The in situ position of many of these jaws is of considerable interest and suggests that post-mortem disturbance of the ammonite was not great.
      • The blobs correspond to vacuities in the dentine and are probably due to calcite or some other post-mortem infilling.
      • This could result from the compaction of curved or partially enrolled individuals, or possibly peri-mortem or post-mortem muscle contraction.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin, literally 'after death'.

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