postmortem
IPA: poʊstmˈɔrtɛm
noun
- Alternative spelling of post mortem [An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.]
adjective
- Alternative spelling of post mortem [Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.]
post-mortem
IPA: poʊstmˈɔrtɛm
noun
- Alternative spelling of post mortem. [An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.]
adjective
- Alternative spelling of post mortem. [Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.]
post mortem
IPA: pˈoʊstmɔrtʌm
noun
- An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- (figuratively, management) Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
- (Britain, university slang, obsolete) At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
adjective
- Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.
adverb
- Occurring after death.
Examples of "postmortem" in Sentences
- Eventually, the postmortem was carried out.
- It was the first postmortem book of Johnson.
- There were conflicts on the postmortem results.
- It might even apply to the postmortem of Mussolini.
- There was a conflict between the postmortem results.
- No postmortem was performed on her at the request of her father.
- Postmortem examinations on the victims showed signs of foul play.
- A postmortem followed and the cause of death was given as cerebral malaria.
- A postmortem priapism is an indicator that death was likely swift and violent.
- The postmortem examination convinced him that the investigation could be done.
- I have to wonder about this if I want to make sense of the idea of postmortem society.
- In Texas, the conference call postmortem fell to Jon Daniels, the Rangers' general manager;
- One of the discussions in the postmortem was the reflection on how ‘democracy’ as conceived by Bush and the neocon gang was both flimsily conceived and counter-productive.
- In the "postmortem" - an epilogue that follows each episode-to episode 3 of season 3, Adolf Hitler is shown planning to use werewolves as a last line of defense for his crumbling regime.
- The show has never held appeal for me before, however, so I can only imagine that once the election and the immediate postmortem is over, it will be relegated back to "not my thing" status.
- The SAP said they had been unable to trace the man's relatives to inform them of his death and the postmortem, which is to be held at a date still to be arranged with Prof J H Olivier, chief state pathologist for the Orange Free State.
- In particular, he argues that the Afterlife is a condition to which we ought to aspire, that it is a moral improvement even on the life of virtue in this world, and that recognizing this is constitutive of wanting to do what God wants, that is, to live according to the Golden Rule, which guarantees as much as anything can (pending divine grace) our long-term postmortem happiness.