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the body's final confession, extracted by people who refuse to take death's word for it.
means A medical examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of death.
from From the Greek 'autopsia,' meaning 'a seeing for oneself' — from 'autos' (self) plus 'opsis' (sight, the same root behind 'optic'). The word literally insists on first-hand looking, refusing hearsay about how the body came to be a body.
- name origin
- Greek for seeing with one's own eyes
- famous victim
- JFK's autopsy remains hotly disputed
- brain weight
- adult brain averages about three pounds
- verbal autopsies
- some deaths reconstructed by interviewing survivors
- livor mortis
- settled blood reveals how a body lay
jfk autopsy — president kennedy's autopsy in bethesda naval hospital, 1963, remains controversial for handling and findings
king tut autopsy — egyptian pharaoh's mummy examined in 1922, revealed he died around age 18 from leg fracture and malaria
michael jackson autopsy — pop star's 2009 autopsy revealed propofol as cause of death, led to conviction of his physician