postmortem

Meaning of postmortem

noun
  1. an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
    the hospital will want to carry out a post-mortem
adjective
  1. relating to a post-mortem.
    a post-mortem report
  2. occurring or performed after death.
    post-mortem changes in his body
adverb
  1. after death.
    assessment of morphology in nerves taken post-mortem

mid 18th century: from Latin, literally ‘after death’.

Information about postmortem

  • The plural form of postmortem is: postmortems.
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Hyphenation of postmortem

post-mortem

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • postmortem is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

postmortem synonyms

Meaning postmortal:

postmortal

Meaning autopsy:

autopsy, necropsy

Meaning the action of dissecting a body or plant to study its internal parts:

dissection

Translation of postmortem

Words that rhyme with postmortem

Nefertem, antemortem, mortem

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