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antemortem

antemortem adjective: having occurred or having been inflicted before death.

Adjective

antemortem (not comparable)

  1. Having occurred or having been inflicted before death.
    • Although the antemortem injuries are severe, they are not the cause of death.
    • Data for the potential human exposure portion of the model include antemortem and postmortem inspection, pneumatic stunning, carcass missplitting, advanced meat recovery systems, and […]2003, Marianne D. Miliotis, Jeffrey W. Bier, International Handbook of Foodborne Pathogens, page 809

Adverb

antemortem (not comparable)

  1. Having occurred or having been inflicted before death.
    • These teeth have small pieces of enamel missing from the edges of the crowns, but it was not possible to establish if this had happened antemortem or postmortem.1978, BARInternational Series, British Archaeological Reports, →ISBN, page 167
    • Stranded animals provide useful information on effects of the physiology and, therefore, samples should be collected and analyzed to confirm results of studies done antemortem.1985, “Part A: Biological Methods”, in Oil in the Sea: Inputs, Fates, and Effects, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, “Fish, Seabirds, and Mammals”, “Marine Mammals”, “Spills of...

antemortem meaning in Tamil and Urdu

antemortem in Tamil

மரிக்குமுன்

antemortem in Urdu

موت سے پہلے, قَبَل از مَرگ

Synonyms of antemortem

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All synonyms and antonyms of antemortem

Origin of antemortem

Learned borrowing from Latin ante mortem (“before death”).

Questions about antemortem

What does antemortem mean?
Antemortem means having occurred or having been inflicted before death.
What is antemortem in Tamil?
Antemortem in Tamil is மரிக்குமுன். See Antemortem meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antemortem?
Antemortem can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near antemortem in the dictionary

  1. antemetic
  2. antemetics
  3. antemillennial
  4. antemodern
  5. antemolar
  6. antemortem
  7. antemosaic
  8. antems
  9. antemundane
  10. antemural
  11. antemurals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antemortem (page history and authors); antemortem (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antemortem (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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