autopsy
noun
[ ˈɔːtɒpsi ]
• a post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
• "a Home Office pathologist carried out the autopsy"
autopsy
verb
• perform an autopsy on (a body or organ).
• "the animal must be autopsied as soon as possible"
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘personal observation’): from French autopsie or modern Latin autopsia, from Greek, from autoptēs ‘eyewitness’, from autos ‘self’ + optos ‘seen’.
