Usually means: Examination of body after death.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. autopsy: Merriam-Webster
  2. autopsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autopsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. autopsy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. autopsy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Autopsy, autopsy: Wordnik
  7. autopsy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. autopsy: Wiktionary
  9. autopsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. autopsy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. autopsy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. autopsy: Dictionary.com
  13. autopsy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. autopsy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Autopsy (House), Autopsy (Rorschach album), Autopsy (TV series), Autopsy (band), Autopsy (disambiguation), Autopsy (software), Autopsy, The Autopsy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Autopsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. autopsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. autopsy: Rhymezone
  19. autopsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. autopsy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. autopsy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. autopsy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. autopsy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. autopsy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. autopsy: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. autopsy: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. autopsy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Autopsy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. autopsy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. autopsy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Autopsy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Autopsy: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  10. autopsy: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  11. autopsy: Medical dictionary
  12. Autopsy: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. autopsy: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AUTOPSY: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Autopsy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
noun:  (figuratively) An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
noun:  (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
verb:  (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
verb:  (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.

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