autopsies
Meaning of autopsies
- a post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
a Home Office pathologist carried out the autopsy
on autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a rare brain condition
- perform an autopsy on (a body or organ).
the animal must be autopsied as soon as possible
an autopsied brain
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.
Information about autopsies
- The singular form of autopsies is: autopsy.
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Hyphenation of autopsies
au-top-sies
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- autopsies is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
autopsies synonyms
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