an official examination of a dead body by a specially trained doctor in order to discover the cause of death synonym post-mortem验尸;尸体解剖 an autopsy report 验尸报告 to perform an autopsy 进行尸体剖验
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2The autopsy revealed that he had been poisoned. 尸检表明他是被毒死的。 The diagnosis was confirmed by autopsy. 诊断结果得到了尸体剖检的证实。 They carried out an autopsy on the victim. 他们对遇害者进行了尸体剖检。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + autopsy- carry out
- conduct
- do
- …
- find something
- reveal something
- show something
- …
- findings
- report
- results
- …
- autopsy on
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.