necropsyn.
/ˈnɛkrɒpsi/, /nᵻˈkrɒpsi/, /nɛˈkrɒpsi/, U.S. /nəˈkrɑpsi/, /ˈnɛˌkrɑpsi/ Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Pathological examination of a dead body; post-mortem examination; an instance of this; = autopsy n. 2a.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > autopsy
autopsy1805
necroscopy1835
necropsy1842
post-mortemizing1851
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > autopsy > instance of
autopsy1805
post-mortem1834
necroscopy1835
necropsy1842
post-obit1854
post1942
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) 470/2 Necropsy, autopsia cadaverica.
1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy vii. 288 At the necropsy the corpus luteum was found in the right ovary.
1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 99 At the necropsy of a case..ulcers were found on the lateral walls of the pharynx.
1891 Cycl. Temp. & Prohib. 628/1 Necropsy reveals either an empty heart or black fluid.
1910 Practitioner Apr. 453 More definite evidence of the existence of gastrostaxis, apart from gastric ulcer, is obtained from biopsies and necropsies.
1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 22 741 A necropsy of the squirrels failed to indicate any major ailment and the viscera were free of inflammations.
1968 Brain 91 490 An unsuspected (oat-celled) carcinoma of the bronchus was found at necropsy.
1999 New Yorker 18 Oct. 92 McNamara performed necropsies, and when she opened the birds' skulls she found that they'd had brain hemorrhages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
necropsyv.
/ˈnɛkrɒpsi/, /nᵻˈkrɒpsi/, /nɛˈkrɒpsi/, U.S. /nəˈkrɑpsi/, /ˈnɛˌkrɑpsi/ Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
transitive. To perform a necropsy on (a dead body); = autopsy v.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > examine medically [verb (transitive)] > perform autopsy on
autopsy1839
post-mortem1874
necropsy1935
post1942
1935 Sci. Monthly Feb. 161/2 There is a close similarity between this cadaver population and Pearl's population of persons necropsied at Johns Hopkins.
1966 Internat. Encycl. Vet. Med. II. 964 In 7 per cent. of 52 severely affected pigs necropsied there was inflammation or ulceration of the stomach wall.
1971 Nature 16 Apr. 460/2 All surviving animals were killed and necropsied after 60 weeks.
1988 Nature 29 Sept. 404/1 We have necropsied 17 seriously ill seals (Phoca vitulina) found on the coast of Northern Ireland since 3 August 1988.
2002 Emerging Infectious Dis. 8 652 We necropsied the dead birds and examined them by various methods.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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