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  • They seemed particularly concerned, for religious reasons, with preventing the state from performing an autopsy on their son's body.†   (source)
  • They gave me the autopsy report.†   (source)
  • I would like to formally request a forensic autopsy be performed on both my mom and dad.†   (source)
  • I'll bet you all a round that when his autopsy comes back, it says he was arseholed right into the next century.†   (source)
  • Am I correct in saying, Horace, that paragraph four on page four of your autopsy report identifies drowning as the cause of Carl Heine's death?†   (source)
  • If an autopsy is to be performed, it should be done immediately.†   (source)
  • By law there was no autopsy.†   (source)
  • On the table were what appeared to be the remains of an autopsy performed upon a large bird, possibly a crow.†   (source)
  • The autopsy report she later received showed my father had had ninety-percent blockage of the arteries before he died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four.†   (source)
  • Alien autopsy, almost.†   (source)
  • Half of all migrants found "drowned," autopsies reveal, died before ever entering the water, says Nuevo Laredo human rights activist Raymundo Ramos Vasquez.†   (source)
  • If you were older, they might go ahead with an autopsy.†   (source)
  • The autopsy is scheduled for this afternoon.†   (source)
  • The trooper had been in favor of having pathologists look for insect venom while autopsying such victims, Jack recalled.†   (source)
  • To be absolutely certain the body was Booth's, Stanton ordered an inquest and autopsy.†   (source)
  • The doctor was a short and cynical man who allowed me to stay during the required autopsy.†   (source)
  • She'd had a child previously, you know — which died, I presume of midwives' mercy — and at the autopsy it was found she was pregnant.†   (source)
  • He refused to allow an autopsy.†   (source)
  • Did an autopsy on him, and it looked like pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Nothing in the autopsy showed that anything had gone wrong.†   (source)
  • But in order to be sure that that's what killed the child, I'll have to do an autopsy.†   (source)
  • There was no need for an autopsy; the odor in the house was sufficient proof that the cause of death had been the cyanide vapors activated in the tray by some photographic acid, and Jeremiah de Saint-Amour knew too much about those matters for it to have been an accident.†   (source)
  • They did autopsies and dissections.†   (source)
  • She was a member of a religious order that prohibited autopsies, but the doctors very much wanted to know what was replicating inside her.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it takes the form of honor killing, in which a family kills one of its own girls because she has behaved immodestly or has fallen in love with a man (often there is no proof that they have had sex, and autopsies of victims of honor killings frequently reveal the hymen to be intact).†   (source)
  • No autopsy!†   (source)
  • Sometimes I imagine my own autopsy.†   (source)
  • Did you get an autopsy?†   (source)
  • During the autopsy, they discovered the actual cause of death was hypothermia.†   (source)
  • However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic?†   (source)
  • Thus Dallas officials won't let John Kennedy's body leave the state of Texas until an official autopsy has been performed.†   (source)
  • The autopsy on Jill was inconclusive, and the cause of death had not been determined.†   (source)
  • He thought about the autopsy report that Inspector Gulbrandsen had let him read.†   (source)
  • Standard autopsy preparation.†   (source)
  • He reached for the box that held the bullets from ballistics, the bloody clothing, the autopsy reports.†   (source)
  • Not a physical autopsy but a spiritual one.†   (source)
  • All have distinctive autopsy stitch marks in a Y shape starting at their little chests and going down to their groins.†   (source)
  • An autopsy would railroad us to a rock pile for thirty years and, frankly, I haven't got that kind of time.†   (source)
  • She'd participated in autopsies of Ebola victims.†   (source)
  • As part of the coursework, our professor took us to an autopsy so we could see firsthand what had so far been limited to textbooks and drawings.†   (source)
  • DR. WALTER KELLERMAN had once been a far heavier man but had dropped a lot of weight, noted Puller, when they arrived for the autopsies.†   (source)
  • It was like having to perform an autopsy on the body of one's love.†   (source)
  • Eve swore over the autopsy report.†   (source)
  • The coroner removed the bodies hours ago for autopsy, but Eduardo's family still remains, unable to leave, as if waiting for his ghost to return to the place he was last alive.†   (source)
  • "There was an autopsy," Clarise said.†   (source)
  • The Washington County investigator who worked the scene said it looked like she might have been poisoned, so I asked the medical examiner to rush the preliminary autopsy.†   (source)
  • I wish now I'd done an autopsy, but I'd swear there wasn't anything wrong with him.†   (source)
  • I experienced some difficulty in explaining to Mike what was meant by an autopsy, so I opened a pathology textbook at a two-page color diagram of a human abdomen under dissection, and with this visual aid was well into my explanation when I realized I had lost my audience.†   (source)
  • I'll want an autopsy.†   (source)
  • Has there been an autopsy?†   (source)
  • I can give you a definite estimate after the autopsy.†   (source)
  • Of course, if you lived here many years, then went back to Earth and died soon after and an autopsy were done with fussiest microanalysis, the analyst might not believe his results.†   (source)
  • An autopsy was to be made today, but their prosector was a habitual drunkard and you never could tell how careful he would be.†   (source)
  • Lab wants a brain autopsy as soon as I'm dead...if I die.†   (source)
  • ...he was required to carry out autopsies on dead animals,   (source)
    autopsies = examinations and dissection of a dead bodies -- typically to determine the cause of death
  • It was a brutal autopsy performed on a living person.†   (source)
  • At the time of the autopsy, McCandless's remains weighed sixty-seven pounds.†   (source)
  • Horace did a ...pretty thorough autopsy.†   (source)
  • And I could not be sure they would not perform an autopsy on you.†   (source)
  • She sat down next to me and pointed to a different word in her sister's autopsy report.†   (source)
  • After an autopsy, the coroner was more specific: Williams had died of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Countless rumors of treachery abounded, although with no autopsy, none was ever confirmed.†   (source)
  • He had seen the autopsy report and the police photographs taken in Mercer House after the shooting.†   (source)
  • Even with an autopsy, we would learn nothing.†   (source)
  • Day's cousin said it wouldn't hurt, so eventually Day agreed and signed an autopsy permission form.†   (source)
  • The doctor shrugged and finished the perfunctory autopsy.†   (source)
  • Cardinal Villot forbade an autopsy on the grounds that no Pope was ever given a postmortem.†   (source)
  • She handed them to the man, who grabbed the autopsy report book and started reading.†   (source)
  • It was he who had signed the death certificate and ordered the autopsy.†   (source)
  • Am I really about to perform the first papal autopsy?†   (source)
  • Or maybe they did something to her during that autopsy?†   (source)
  • As a medical examiner in Miami and Atlanta, Burton had performed some seven thousand autopsies.†   (source)
  • Dr. Burton had autopsied nine of those murders.†   (source)
  • "These are autopsy reports," he said, opening the first book as the scent of mildew filled the room.†   (source)
  • Vetra, in case you didn't hear me, papal autopsies are prohibited by Vatican Law.†   (source)
  • And I want to get the medical record and autopsy report on my sister.†   (source)
  • "Here's my mother autopsy," she said at one point.†   (source)
  • As Henrietta's body cooled in the "colored" freezer, Gey asked her doctors if they'd do an autopsy.†   (source)
  • Prelim autopsy puts time of death at one sixteen.†   (source)
  • At minimum there would be the regular exercise of autopsies.†   (source)
  • Later, the autopsy would show—and the newspapers would report—that she died instantly.†   (source)
  • Sandberg put a colour photograph from the autopsy on the table.†   (source)
  • I want to run the autopsy results through Milt Fanning and the FBI computers.†   (source)
  • In the autopsy room, a male body lay on a stainless-steel table.†   (source)
  • At his specific instructions, he was buried without an autopsy.†   (source)
  • Burton did not autopsy the anticoagulated rats.†   (source)
  • This is a rapid sampling of tissue, done close to the moment of death instead of a full autopsy.†   (source)
  • Even with the two assistants' help the seven bodies took many hours to properly autopsy.†   (source)
  • The autopsy recorded that she was very severely beaten.†   (source)
  • Where there is a homicide, we must have an autopsy.†   (source)
  • "You attended autopsies before?" asked Puller.†   (source)
  • He pointed at the tattoo in the autopsy photograph.†   (source)
  • He performed a complete autopsy on these animals, but discarded the anticoagulated animals.†   (source)
  • The class, and particularly the autopsy experience, had taken me deeper than I anticipated.†   (source)
  • Burton was in the autopsy room, going over his slides from the day before.†   (source)
  • Autopsy BURTON WAS WORKING IN THE AUTOPSY room.†   (source)
  • Then he pressed a button on a control console marked AUTOPSY.†   (source)
  • The ones who had died anyway, but had had no autopsies.†   (source)
  • The Lords of Karma performed an autopsy and conferred.†   (source)
  • A doctor told Vic that if a child who had just died after ingesting a big bowl of Red Razberry Zingers were the subject of an autopsy, the postmortem would reveal a digestive tract as red as a stop sign.†   (source)
  • INVESTIGATION CONCERNING CARIETTA WHITE AND THE SO-CALLED "TK" PHENOMENA CONTINUES AMID PERSISTENT RUMORS THAT AN AUTOPSY ON THE WHITE GIRL HAS UNCOVERED CERTAIN UNUSUAL FORMATIONS IN THE CEREBRUM AND CEREBELLUM OF THE BRAIN.†   (source)
  • Although we had both endured our share of bullying at school, Platt's persecution of Andy—inventive, joyous, sadistic —had verged on outright torture: spitting in Andy's food, yes, tearing up his toys, but also leaving dead guppies from the fish tank and autopsy photos from the Internet on his pillow, throwing back the covers and peeing on him while he was asleep (and then crying Android's wet the bed!)†   (source)
  • We did an autopsy, and we found that the tumor had metastasized all over her lungs, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract.†   (source)
  • It's the law that when someone dies unexpectedly, they have to do an autopsy to find out what happened.†   (source)
  • I will have to take the body for some further tests, but my autopsy shows that the doctor died of snakebite.†   (source)
  • At the Executive Mansion, the soldiers carried the president's body in its temporary coffin to the second floor for an autopsy.†   (source)
  • An autopsy?†   (source)
  • Following this cruelly mishandled execution, the state performed an autopsy—against the family's repeated requests.†   (source)
  • But my father's radio station wanted to issue a news release about his death, so it leaned on the morgue to perform the autopsy sooner.†   (source)
  • Autopsy?†   (source)
  • I want to think things over, decide what I'm going to do between now and the time when my light is carried down that long tunnel into blackness.... From the conclusion of The State Investigatory Board of Maine in connection with the events of May 27-28 in Chamberlain, Maine: ...and so we must conclude that, while an autopsy performed on the subject indicates some cellular changes which may indicate the presence of some paranormal power, we find no reason to believe that a recurrence is likely or even possible...Excerpt from a letter dated May 3, 1988, from Amelia Jenks, Royal Knob, Tennessee, to Sandra Jenks, Macon, Georgia: ...and your little neece is growin like†   (source)
  • The pathologist subsequently performed an autopsy at the Department of Forensic Sciences laboratory in Mobile.†   (source)
  • "Can you read for the court the last sentence of paragraph four, page four, of the autopsy report you have in front of you?" said Nels Gudrnundsson.†   (source)
  • Less than twenty-four hours after landing in Fairbanks, Carine and Sam flew on to Anchorage, where Chris's body had been cremated following the autopsy at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory.†   (source)
  • I had used the medscanner to perform a perfunctory autopsy and it had revealed massive internal injuries; even the poor devil's heart had been pulped by the force of the fall.†   (source)
  • The second note bids the world goodbye...An autopsy at the state coroner's office in Fairbanks this week found that the man had died of starvation, probably in late July.†   (source)
  • Something in that autopsy report.†   (source)
  • She later conceded that she had no basis for such an opinion and that without an autopsy and tests there was no way she could know if a baby had been born alive.†   (source)
  • You've told the court in detail about your autopsy of the deceased, your fine background as a medical examiner, and so forth, as you've been asked to do.†   (source)
  • The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee.†   (source)
  • There were no clues as to why they had slagged their own ships and the Ouster bodies-both in and around the boats-had been burned beyond any hope of autopsy or analysis.†   (source)
  • I'm returning to you the exhibit you identified earlier, in direct examination, as your autopsy report, which you've testified accurately reflects your findings and conclusions.†   (source)
  • What's worse, Lawton was obligated to give us a copy of this sheet along with the autopsy report, and he didn't.†   (source)
  • "By Vatican law," the woman continued, "no formal autopsy is ever performed on a Pope, so the Illuminati claim of murder cannot be confirmed.†   (source)
  • A Heparin overdose in a human would cause symptoms easily mistaken for a stroke ....especially in the absence of a proper autopsy.†   (source)
  • Papal law prohibits autopsy.†   (source)
  • Each time she panicked, she'd pat the bed and say, "Where's my sister autopsy report?" or "Oh no, where'd I put my room key?"†   (source)
  • She moved across the room to the other bed, where she lay on her stomach and started reading her sister's autopsy report.†   (source)
  • When Henrietta died, Day had agreed to let her doctors do an autopsy because they'd told him it might help his children someday.†   (source)
  • She talked about a man she didn't name, saying, "I didn't think it was fit for him to steal my mother medical record and autopsy papers.†   (source)
  • Then she asked Mary to tell the story about seeing her mother's red toenails during the autopsy—the one Deborah had read in Gold's book.†   (source)
  • Now there she was with a corpse, a stack of petridishes, and the pathologist, Dr. Wilbur, who stood hunched over the autopsy table.†   (source)
  • He demanded access to the medical records and autopsy reports of Henrietta and Deborah's sister, Elsie, as well as damages of $15,000 per defendant, plus interest.†   (source)
  • Day wanted Henrietta to be presentable for the funeral, so he'd only given permission for a partial autopsy, which meant no incision into her chest and no removal of her limbs or head.†   (source)
  • The way Day remembers it, someone from Hopkins called to tell him Henrietta had died, and to ask permission for an autopsy, and Day said no. A few hours later, when Day went to Hopkins with a cousin to see Henrietta's body and sign some papers, the doctors asked again about the autopsy.†   (source)
  • The photo was attached to the top corner of Elsie's autopsy report, which Lurz and I began reading, saying occasional phrases out loud: "diagnosis of idiocy" ..."directly connected with syphilis" ..."self-induced vomiting by thrusting fingers down her throat for six months prior to death."†   (source)
  • Cofield then filed a lawsuit against Deborah, Lawrence, Courtney Speed, the Henrietta Lacks Health History Museum Foundation, and a long list of Hopkins officials: the president, the medical records administrator, an archivist, Richard Kidwell, and Grover Hutchins, the director of autopsy services.†   (source)
  • Though no law or code of ethics required doctors to ask permission before taking tissue from a living patient, the law made it very clear that performing an autopsy or removing tissue from the dead without permission was illegal.†   (source)
  • Then, without warning, Deborah turned the pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the autopsy: The dead woman's arms had been pulled up and back so that the pathologist could get at her chest ...the body had been split down the middle and opened wide ...greyish white tumor globules ...filled the corpse.†   (source)
  • In the autopsy report, we wrote brain haemorrhage resulting from an accident, but not one of us was satisfied with that assessment.†   (source)
  • Yet the autopsy will be inconclusive.†   (source)
  • I told you about the box and the tablets because I assumed, correctly, that an autopsy would show traces of the drug.†   (source)
  • They stepped briefly into shops that sold autopsy photos, that sold movie stars' garbage, the actual stuff deep-frozen in a warehouse—you looked in a catalog and placed an order.†   (source)
  • Physically, he would be considered a hunk at the university or even as a cadaver in an autopsy room, which was preferable to her.†   (source)
  • Autopsy will confirm.†   (source)
  • An autopsy disclosed that death was due to multiple fractures and heart failure—the result, perhaps, of a ghastly shock.†   (source)
  • "The ball entered through the occipital bone about one inch to the left of the median line and just above the left lateral sinus, which it opened," the autopsy will read.†   (source)
  • Autopsy should be in this morning, but my prelim puts her dead for twenty-four hours minimum at discovery.†   (source)
  • Not after a rescan of autopsy reports.†   (source)
  • What did the autopsy on Minh reveal?†   (source)
  • After the briefest hesitation, he told her about Jill and Robert Torrelson—the operation, the autopsy, and all that had happened in the aftermath, including the note he'd received in the mail.†   (source)
  • Some sort of autopsy?†   (source)
  • The autopsy put the victim's death at two A.M. He'd spent nearly two hours with her before he'd killed her, and nearly an hour more after she'd been dead.†   (source)
  • Once Robert Torrelson's attorney received the autopsy report, had another surgeon review the videotape, and the attorneys from the insurance company and hospital started the process of filing motions to drag out the process and run up the costs, he'd painted a bleak picture of what his client was up against.†   (source)
  • The longest of them, just 128 KB, was called [Irina P] and gave a sketch of a prostitute's life, followed by Svensson's summary of the autopsy report, his curt outline of her appalling wounds.†   (source)
  • It was photographed, and then the surgeon general, Joseph Barnes, who had tended to Lincoln in the president's final hours, performed an autopsy while the ship was sailing.†   (source)
  • On a Saturday night ten months ago, in the course of covering a story, Joe had visited the city morgue, where the bagged bodies on the gurneys and the naked bodies on the autopsy tables waited for the attention of overworked pathologists.†   (source)
  • They performed an autopsy on him, and when they opened his skull, they found a massive, fatal hemorrhage at the center of the brain.†   (source)
  • No autopsy!†   (source)
  • He could see that Svensson had spent a great deal of time on Irina P. From the autopsy report he learned that the woman had been killed in a slow, cruel way.†   (source)
  • This young prostitute who was murdered in Södertälje ....the autopsy revealed that she died as a result of a staggeringly vicious assault.†   (source)
  • I have the autopsy photo right here.†   (source)
  • They opened him up for an autopsy and found that his kidneys were destroyed and that his liver was destroyed.†   (source)
  • Dr. Barnes then turned his completed autopsy over to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who also took control of the photographs made of the corpse, and of Booth's diary, which was handed to him by Lafayette C. Baker.†   (source)
  • On the disc are copies of police reports, including autopsies on both victims, and a couple of nasty little videos of two dead women.†   (source)
  • They do autopsies for other reasons.†   (source)
  • They included the doctor who had done the autopsy on Monet, nurses who had attended Monet or Dr. Musoke, the surgeons who had operated on Musoke, and aides and technicians who had handled any secretions from either Monet or Musoke.†   (source)
  • As he ran down the corridor, a quiet, soothing voice on the loudspeakers said, "Seal has been broken in Autopsy.†   (source)
  • The Seal IN THE CORRIDOR, HE SAW THE FLASHING sign that indicated the source of the trouble: AUTOPSY.†   (source)
  • And Hall ran down to the autopsy lab.†   (source)
  • Burton left the room, walking down the corridor to the autopsy room, knowing that the conveyor belt, made to carry materials from one lab to another, would have automatically delivered the cages.†   (source)
  • Seal has been broken in Autopsy.†   (source)
  • Instead, he turned his attention to the original autopsy specimens, the first black Norway rat and the first rhesus monkey to be exposed to the capsule.†   (source)
  • One autopsy room.†   (source)
  • Then I'll autopsy them.†   (source)
  • The autopsies he performed were careful and good; he did them slowly, reminding himself that he must overlook nothing.†   (source)
  • Have you finished your autopsies?†   (source)
  • What about the autopsies?†   (source)
  • Pichuzhkin did the autopsy.†   (source)
  • I had been supplied with the gas mask, along with a case of tear-gas grenades with which I was supposed to drive wolves out of their dens so they could be shot as autopsy specimens.†   (source)
  • One evening I inveigled him over to the corner where I had set up my portable laboratory and proudly showed him my collection of glittering scalpels, bone shears, brain spoons and other intricate instruments which I would use in conducting autopsies on wolves, caribou and other beasts.†   (source)
  • The doctor's widow was against having an autopsy done.†   (source)
  • The doctor gave us the tip right away-he and the police surgeon did the autopsy together-and the result is in no doubt whatever.†   (source)
  • There must be an autopsy?†   (source)
  • a crude sign erected on a pile of ashes and tiles ('Sister, where are you?' or 'All safe and we live at Toyosaka'); naked trees and canted telephone poles; the few standing, gutted buildings only accentuating the horizontality of everything else (the Museum of Science and Industry, with its dome stripped to its steel frame, as if for an autopsy; the modern Chamber of Commerce Building, its tower as cold, rigid, and unassailable after the blow as before; the huge, low-lying, camouflaged city hall; the row of dowdy banks, caricaturing a shaken economic system); and in the streets a macabre traffic — hundreds of crumpled bicycles, shells of street cars and automobiles, all halted i†   (source)
  • Now, listen here, Herr Settembrini, you're already talking about autopsies.†   (source)
  • "Well, then that means an autopsy," Mason resumed.†   (source)
  • And then comes the autopsy, the anatomy of the grave.†   (source)
  • IN CONNECTION with the autopsy and its results there was a decided set-back.†   (source)
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