post-mortem

noun

/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːtəm/

/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːrtəm/

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(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 synonym autopsy
- 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。
Topics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verb + post-mortem
- carry out
- conduct
- do
- …
post-mortem + verb
- reveal something
- show something
post-mortem + noun
- examination
preposition
- post-mortem on
See full entry
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’.