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Jan 18, 2010 · Necropsy or autopsy means “seeing for yourself”. It is a systematic examination of the body after death for the purpose of not only determining the cause of death, but to explain pathogenesis of the cause of death and identifying other pathology/pathologies associated with the case .
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May 25, 2013 · The autopsy, more correctly called necropsy, is a sequel and a completion of the study of disease after death. It consists of an examination of the corpses to determine the cause of death based on lesions found, in collaboration with clinical, radiological and laboratory data .
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autopsy, or necropsy or postmortem, Dissection and examination of a dead body to determine cause of death and learn about disease processes in ways that are not possible with the living. Autopsies have contributed to the development of medicine since at least the Middle Ages. Beyond revealing causes of individual deaths, autopsy is crucial to the a...
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A postmortem examination of a body, which helps determine cause of death and identify any diseases that had not been detected while the patient was alive, or which confirms the presence of conditions diagnosed before the patient died.
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Jun 1, 2015 · By Bethany Brookshire. June 1, 2015 at 6:00 am. Autopsy and Necropsy (nouns, “AWE-top-see” and “NEH-crop-see”) These words describe examinations of a dead body to find the cause of death. Autopsy is the term for examining dead people. Necropsy refers to such probes in other animals.
May 9, 2014 · A necropsy is performed to determine the possible cause of death and/or to detect induced or coincidental pathological alterations in tissues. The tools to perform a necropsy will vary not only by species, the type of dissection that is required, and personal preferences.
In a similar study at the Heart Institute of the same hospital, Saad et al. 2 also found major disagreements regarding the cause of death in 30.0% of cases in a sequential series of 406 necropsies, mostly involving cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
