Definitions for autopsy

autopsy au·top·sy

Spelling: [aw-top-see, aw-tuh p-]
IPA: /ˈɔ tɒp si, ˈɔ təp-/

Autopsy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in autopsy (aopstuy).

Definitions for autopsy

noun

  1. inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  2. an analysis of something after it has been done or made.
  3. inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  4. an analysis of something after it has been done or made.

verb (used with object)

  1. to perform an autopsy on.
  2. to perform an autopsy on.

Origin of autopsy

1645-55; (Middle French autopsie) Greek autopsía a seeing with one's own eyes, equivalent to aut- aut- + óps(is) -opsis + -ia Examples for autopsy

When the last case died, a free case again, I performed my own autopsy.

There are different ways of beginning an autopsy such as this.

As an autopsy has yet to be completed, the official cause of death remains unknown.

The lawyer asserted that an autopsy of Sarbandi showed how the pen knife wound was itself not fatal.

The autopsy report is expected to be completed in the next 24 hours.

Who is the physician that is going to undertake the autopsy?

They had hoped the autopsy would show Brinsley had eaten something that would point them in the right direction.

There was nothing discovered at the autopsy to account for the death.

An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide levels in the blood of the not-so-dearly departed.

The lion has to assist at his autopsy,—rather hard, is n't it?

When the last case died, a free case again, I performed my own autopsy.

There are different ways of beginning an autopsy such as this.

As an autopsy has yet to be completed, the official cause of death remains unknown.

The lawyer asserted that an autopsy of Sarbandi showed how the pen knife wound was itself not fatal.

The autopsy report is expected to be completed in the next 24 hours.

Who is the physician that is going to undertake the autopsy?

They had hoped the autopsy would show Brinsley had eaten something that would point them in the right direction.

There was nothing discovered at the autopsy to account for the death.

An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide levels in the blood of the not-so-dearly departed.

The lion has to assist at his autopsy,—rather hard, is n't it?

Word Value for autopsy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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