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  1. 1. a. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Source: wordnet
  4. 4. v. perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem Source: wordnet
  5. 5. 1. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth. 2. (Med.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. Source: webster
  6. 6. Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining thecause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. Source: adambom
  7. 7. v:3/n:97 n. an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease v. perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem Source: ecdict

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