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Noun(1) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

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(1) It is also called a necropsy , the examination of the dead.(2) I went over and two vet students performed a necropsy on the animal.(3) A standard necropsy protocol with agreed diagnostic criteria was used to ensure consistent classification.(4) The first doctor to determine that something was seriously wrong with the animal was the vet who performed the necropsy , after it died from pneumonia three days after its return.(5) After necropsy , all recovered birds were classified as killed by avian, mammalian, or unknown predators, or as dying by other causes.(6) In his necropsy of a Bantu man in 1956 he found asbestos bodies in the lungs and insisted that this was a mesothelioma.(7) To put the controversy to rest, the city hired a veterinarian to perform a necropsy on a 50-pound dog euthanized in the shelter's gas chamber.(8) The necropsy excluded coronary embolism, myocardial infarction, or tamponade, and the patient's death remains unexplained.(9) None of the deaths certified as due to old age was assessed by a necropsy , and none had a coroner's inquest.(10) Veterinary necropsy of these two pigs was inconclusive beyond a general diagnosis of septicemia and Actinomyces infection of lung, liver, and spleen.(11) At necropsy these infants have severe brain swelling and hypoxic injury but little axonal shearing and only a thin subdural haemorrhage.(12) The body was transported to the Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center where a necropsy revealed the horse had broken his neck between the fourth and fifth vertebrae.(13) We found that a reason for performance of the necropsy was given in only 55% of the autopsies reviewed.(14) At necropsy all stifle joints were stable to an anterior drawer force with no significant limitations in passive range of motion.(15) A necropsy later revealed he had fractured his spine behind the withers.(16) Preliminary findings of a necropsy indicate the 7-year-old male died of blood loss associated with gastric ulcers.