- (also post-mortem examination)
a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died 验尸；尸体解剖 to do/conduct/carry out a post-mortem 进行剖尸验证 - post-mortem on somebody
The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned. 验尸证明这孩子是被人毒死的。 They’re doing a post-mortem on her today. 他们今天会对她进行尸体解剖。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + post-mortem- carry out
- conduct
- do
- …
- reveal something
- show something
- examination
- post-mortem on
- post-mortem (on something)
a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed 事后反思（或剖析） to hold a post-mortem on the party’s election defeat 对该党竞选失败进行检讨
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘after death’.