(亦作post-mortem examination)
1- an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death验尸。
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- 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。
attrib.
1- of or 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。
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- happening after death死后的：
post-mortem changes in his body
其身体在死后的变化
as adv. assessment of morphology in nerves taken post-mortem.死后所做的神经形态评估。
词源
mid 18th cent.: from Latin, literally 'after death'.