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noun an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
verb perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem
originFrom New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.
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