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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
autopsy .
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Examples
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If he did not get 'autopsied' there is an excellent chance that he still lives.
A Lie Called 911: Why A Federal Grand Jury Must Indict Bush and Cheney 2008
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Also in 2006, McGarry autopsied Lee Demond Smith, a 21-year-old man who died in jail in Gulfport, Miss.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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In some cases, they discovered, McGarry's work was so incomplete that bodies were "half-autopsied."
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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Also in 2006, McGarry autopsied Lee Demond Smith, a 21-year-old man who died in jail in Gulfport, Miss.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman who died shortly after an encounter with police, was autopsied by McGarry in 2005.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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When a bullet shattered the face of 17-year-old Carissa Holliday and left her dead in a trailer outside of Tulsa, no doctor ever autopsied her body.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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Late last year, a doctor in a suburb of Detroit autopsied the body of a bank executive pulled from a lake -- and managed to miss the bullet hole in his neck and the bullet lodged in his jaw.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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Raymond Robair, a 48-year-old handyman who died shortly after an encounter with police, was autopsied by McGarry in 2005.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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In some cases, they discovered, McGarry's work was so incomplete that bodies were "half-autopsied."
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
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When a bullet shattered the face of 17-year-old Carissa Holliday and left her dead in a trailer outside of Tulsa, no doctor ever autopsied her body.
Medical Examiners In America: A Dysfunctional System ProPublica 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word autopsied
Huh, I'd never heard of autopsy as a verb before now, only as a noun.
April 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word autopsied
Likewise, necropsy is also necropsied. Most users seem to prefer the noun form. "The pathologist decided to forego a necropsy of the dead bilby on the side of the road."
April 13, 2018