necropsy

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A necropsy would provide useful data on the health of the local pack.

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

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noun

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for necropsy.

noun

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

See also: autopsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM

Example sentences

A necropsy would provide useful data on the health of the local pack.

That same CIA doctor went on to perform a necropsy on the elephant /while/ on LSD.

"A necropsy revealed a ruptured abscess in her intestinal tract.

You can't exactly automate necropsy on a rat liver to see if the compound you just gave it caused liver failure.

There is a good chance that a lot of the marine life invests plastic and we just notice it when we perform a necropsy after a death.

And from the fact that she wrote up a bunch of necropsy reports on animals where one of the factors that led to their demise was Clostridium perfringens.

Autopsy and necropsy are basically synonyms, but the first is used for humans, while the latter is used for all other animals.

Animal necropsy studies appear to show that lithium preserves nerve cells in the brains of animals treated with it as compared to controls.

It's only diagnosed by characteristic neural striations during a necropsy.

That is demonstrated by neuroimaging and brain chemistry studies in human beings, by in vitro studies of animal cells, by necropsy studies of animal subjects and by autopsy studies of human beings who die from causes other than mood disorders.