postmortem
of, relating to, or occurring in the time following death.
of or relating to examination of the body after death.
occurring after the end of something; after the event: a postmortem criticism of a television show.
after death: Pacemakers have to be removed postmortem from bodies that are going to be cremated.
Medicine/Medical. a postmortem examination; autopsy.
an evaluation or discussion occurring after the end or fact of something: to do a postmortem on the decision of a court.
Cards. a discussion of the bidding or playing of a previous hand.
Origin of postmortem
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How to use postmortem in a sentence
Using the postmortem frontal cortex samples from three healthy individuals, they applied the method to dozens of neurons and established that up to 41% of the cells had either missing or extra gene copies.
The quest to learn if our brain’s mutations affect mental health | Roxanne Khamsi | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIndeed, researchers would later confirm the importance of postmortem infections in Ebola’s spread.
Chasing the Elusive Numbers That Define Epidemics | Jordana Cepelewicz | March 22, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThey realized that if postmortem transmission — from the handling of the deceased during funerals — was a primary source of new Ebola infections, then most experts were probably assuming generation intervals for the disease that were too short.
Chasing the Elusive Numbers That Define Epidemics | Jordana Cepelewicz | March 22, 2021 | Quanta MagazineOne 1971 survey in the British Medical Journal found that close to half the widows in Wales and England had seen their mates postmortem.
There was a postmortem conversation after the seven-week program ended, but this publisher described it as “informal” and that the platform didn’t go in depth on the program’s results.
‘We’ll give you money’: TikTok getting publishers’ attention by including them in $1 billion Creator Fund | Tim Peterson | August 28, 2020 | Digiday
The gloomy postmortem has begun, but team manager Roy Hodgson is not resigning.
England Eliminated From World Cup 2014: The ‘Years of Hurt’ Continue | Tim Teeman | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNew postmortem tweeting projects are aiming to push the boundaries of life, death, and social media.
postmortem examinations later showed no signs of assault or defensive wounds on her body.
Oscar Pistorius Murder Case: What We’ve Learned So Far | Melissa Leon | February 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“I have not seen an honest postmortem assessment yet,” she told me.
In the end I might leave one gleaming flake or so amidst the slag heaps for a moment of postmortem sympathy.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsI think—yes—in that we would have, particularly, postmortem examined the body much more carefully than we did.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThe failure to obtain secretin in some cases they claim is probably due to the rapid postmortem degeneration of diabetic tissue.
It was a constant source of surprise to his students to note how well the master's diagnosis agreed with postmortem findings.
Makers of Modern Medicine | James J. WalshObservations made postmortem showed that his clinical observations were justified by the differences observed in the organ.
Makers of Modern Medicine | James J. Walsh
British Dictionary definitions for postmortem
/ (pəʊstˈmɔːtəm) /
(prenominal) occurring after death
analysis or study of a recently completed event: a postmortem on a game of chess
Origin of postmortem
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for postmortem
[ (pohst-mawr-tuhm) ]
Autopsy; figuratively, any analysis that follows an event: “When the convention is over, we'll have a postmortem to find ways of improving it for next year.” From Latin, meaning “after death.”
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