(pl. -ies)
- a post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease尸体剖检, 尸检。
-ies, -ied
with obj. perform an autopsy on (a body or organ)对（尸体, 器官）进行剖检：as adj. autopsied an autopsied brain.经剖检的大脑。
词源
mid 17th cent. （in the sense 'personal observation'）： from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek， from autoptēs 'eyewitness'， from autos 'self' + optos 'seen'.