Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun postmortem_examination

1 sense of postmortem examination

Sense 1
autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination -- (an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease)
       => examination, scrutiny -- (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))