autopticadj.

1808 Christian Observer Oct. 624/1 What became of this apostolic autoptic document, so highly valued..and so deservedly?

1820 J. Grant Summary Hist. Eng. Church III. xix. 353 Polycarp, contemporary with the Apostles, mentions the four Gospels; but says nothing concerning these Autoptic memoirs.

1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 48 Undoubted marks of autoptic testimony.

1861 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. 14 196 Canon Stanley, who in this case is an autoptic witness.

1937 Classical Jrnl. 32 240 For the social historian,..the most important items would be such things as Philo's..description—we may assume, autoptic—of a bull in the arena.

1999 V. Agnew in R. Langford & R. West Marginal Voices 56 The problem with the autoptic claim..[is] that the credibility of eye-witness testimony is itself contingent upon the credibility of the witness.

1825 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. 54 424 I must say the same of..the other Italian physicians who have feared to encounter the dangers which autoptic examinations are fraught with, where the climate, as well as local circumstances, are so peculiarly adverse to them.

1850 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 5 174 The true autoptic changes are chiefly referable to the mucous and the serous tissues.

1916 Monogr. Med. 3 208 Clinical and autoptic studies have demonstrated that proliferations of either the lymphadenoid or the myeloid tissue..may take place without the appearance of immature cells in the blood.

1993 Observer (Nexis) 14 Feb. 54 Kleinman wanders the streets in a mixture of bewilderment and terror, encountering a doctor obsessed with getting the killer under his autoptic scalpel.

2005 P. M. Coates Encycl. Dietary Suppl. 683/2 Autoptic findings show abnormalities mainly in the midbrain and lower brain regions.