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autopsia

autopsia is the archaic form of autopsy.

Meaning of autopsy

Noun

autopsy (plural autopsies)

  1. A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
    • The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.
  2. (figuratively) An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
    • This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
    Synonyms:
    postmortem
  3. (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

See all 5 meanings of autopsy

Questions about autopsia

What is autopsia the archaic form of?
Autopsia is the archaic form of autopsy.

Words near autopsia in the dictionary

  1. autoprotolyses
  2. autoprotolysis
  3. autoprotonation
  4. autoprotonization
  5. autoprotonizations
  6. autopsia
  7. autopsic
  8. autopsical
  9. autopsied
  10. autopsier
  11. autopsiers

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