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Definition

an examination and dissection of a dead body — typically to determine the cause of death

An autopsy is required because foul play is suspected.

autopsy = an examination and dissection of a dead body — typically to determine the cause of death

Can Deborah get a copy of that autopsy report?
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

autopsy = examination of the dead body — typically to determine the cause of death

...he was required to carry out autopsies on dead animals,
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

autopsies = examinations and dissection of a dead bodies — typically to determine the cause of death

He refused to allow an autopsy.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
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.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Did an autopsy on him, and it looked like pneumonia.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
Thus Dallas officials won't let John Kennedy's body leave the state of Texas until an official autopsy has been performed.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic?
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
If you were older, they might go ahead with an autopsy.
Darren Shan -- A Living Nightmare
The doctor's widow was against having an autopsy done.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
All have distinctive autopsy stitch marks in a Y shape starting at their little chests and going down to their groins.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
I told you about the box and the tablets because I assumed, correctly, that an autopsy would show traces of the drug.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
Lab wants a brain autopsy as soon as I'm dead... if I die.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
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.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
At minimum there would be the regular exercise of autopsies.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
I'll bet you all a round that when his autopsy comes back, it says he was arseholed right into the next century."
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Has there been an autopsy?
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
The autopsy is scheduled for this afternoon.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
Yet the autopsy will be inconclusive.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
On the table were what appeared to be the remains of an autopsy performed upon a large bird, possibly a crow.
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

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