ante-mortem

The investigation also found several veterinarians who took shortcuts in ante-mortem inspections in order to complete assigned tasks.

Michael Markarian: Serving Sickness to School Kids 2009

And then after that try to determine whether or not there are any ante-mortem or before-death medical records, X-rays, and so on, and then maybe even try to do a post-mortem, ante-mortem comparison and see if you can establish at least a tentative identification from that.

CNN Transcript May 26, 2009 2009

But I think she said no ante-mortem trauma, but that does, indeed, mean that she ` s found no evidence of a gunshot wound on the bones, no evidence of a knife wound on the bones, and no evidence of a fractured skull or a fractured arm or leg or ribs.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008 2008

The remains are completely skeletonized, with no visible soft tissue present and no ante-mortem trauma evidence, meaning that there was no trauma to the bone prior to the death.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008 2008

But, listen, without any sort of real specifics on this body, the -- you know, no ante-mortem trauma.

CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008 2008

Anything else would be some weird ass presentation of a long QT or other zebra, which you're not going to diagnose ante-mortem anyway.

While I'm here... 1 Dinosaur 2008

DANIEL SPITZ, MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: You know the body was so decomposed that common sense may tell you that the duct tape were put on, you know, in an ante-mortem fashion, but the reality is that there ` s nothing forensically that would allow you to distinguish whether the duct tape was put on before or after death.

CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2008 2008

So I think that it is not evidence of an ante-mortem kind of ligature.

CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2007 2007

A forensic team returned from Thailand on Saturday after submitting ante-mortem records and DNA samples to help trace four missing South Africans.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

The two submitted ante-mortem records and DNA samples taken from the families of the four missing South Africans to the Thai Tsunami

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005