Plural of autopsy
regular plural
The plural of autopsy is autopsies.
Forms of autopsy
| Singular | autopsy /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | autopsies |
| Countable | countable |
Autopsies in a sentence
- The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.2004, Jon Talton, Dry Heat, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry homicide
- The health minister in Turkey, which treated many of the attack's victims and conducted autopsies on others, said test results conducted on victims confirmed sarin gas was used.2017 April 12, Samuel Osborne, “Vladimir Putin says US-Russia relations are worse since Donald Trump took office”, in The Independent. From the entry sarin
Meaning of autopsy
- noun A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
- noun An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
- noun An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
Questions about the plural of autopsy
- What is the plural of autopsy?
- The plural of autopsy is autopsies.
- Is autopsy countable?
- Autopsy is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: autopsy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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