noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a post-mortem examination (= an examination of a dead body to discover why the person died )
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The post-mortem examination showed that he died from a blood clot in the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A post-mortem revealed that the woman had died of blood poisoning.
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A police pathologist carried out a post-mortem on the body.
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No evidence of drugs was found in the post-mortem examination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A post-mortem will take place tomorrow at Poplar mortuary in east London.
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Also last weekend, the Fabians published their general election post-mortem .
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Here, in a room in Sandton, the Springboks were undergoing a similar post-mortem .
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Only a post-mortem revealed the truth.
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Owing to shortage of medical staff, the post-mortem was not carried out until the following morning.
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Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem .
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The most ludicrous post-mortem appeared last Thursday, September 18, on the editorial page of an almost-daily afternoon paper.
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The verdict of that post-mortem was that Reverend Marr had been killed at about midnight on Friday.