(a.) Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
(a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(3) Prevalence data has been gathered from several autopsy studies.
(4) A clinically manifest disease could be found in 13 patients, meningosis was additionally detected by autopsy in 32 patients.
(5) In 8 of 32 patients (25%) the diagnosis was established only at autopsy.
(6) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(7) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(9) All subjects underwent autopsy, and only six were found to have injuries compatible with survival.
(10) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
(11) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(12) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(13) Autopsy data of all patients who received EVS and who died (32 patients, 100%) during this period were available to confirm the diagnosis of perforation.
(14) At autopsy, 3 of the 15 patients who had normal angiograms were found not to have had thrombotic occlusions.
(15) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(16) The present study was undertaken to measure free amino acid concentrations in 20 brain regions obtained at autopsy, from normal persons and schizophrenics.
(17) On a total of 23338 subjects who died between the years 1960 and 1971, 17052 autopsies were carried out (73.1%) and only 15384 (65.9%) of these were evaluated for out study.
(18) Clinical, autopsy and histopathological findings are described and are consistent with those previously recorded.
(19) Lung biopsy in two patients and autopsy in two additional patients showed interstitial changes consistent with drug injury.
(20) One patient with elevated serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (PTH) had a parathyroid adenoma at autopsy.
Cadaver
Definition:
(n.) A dead human body; a corpse.
Example Sentences:
(1) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(2) Afterwards in five cadavers the flow rate was increased until a herniation of the TA appeared.
(3) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(4) Aside from cadaver knees, there has been only one report of a successful in vivo training model.
(5) Femoral angiograms were made in 21 cadavers under simulated clinical conditions, with a pressurized radiopaque casting material.
(6) Twenty-three normal cadaver eyes were used in this study.
(7) The presence or absence of the heterophile transplantation antigen was sought in renal tissue from stillborn infants, primary cell cultures, and several organs from adult human cadavers.
(8) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(9) Spleen cells of a cadaver kidney donor were studied as control.
(10) The most common complications in breast augmentation surgery with homologous fat grafts obtained from fresh cadavers are presented, showing subsequent surgical procedures to reconstruct the breasts of such patients through use of silicone prostheses and muscle flaps from the latissimus dorsi.
(11) Liberal transfusion policies are therefore indicated in cadaver transplant candidates, but more than five transfusions prior to transplantation should probably be avoided unless clinically necessary.
(12) Nonmetallic foreign bodies were embedded in cadaver feet.
(13) The relationship between incident sound level and acoustic attenuation for four types of earplug and four types of earmuff have been investigated using freshly prepared and instrumented cadaver ears.
(14) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(15) There was an 84% decrease in the yield of microsomal protein, a 64% decrease in cytochrome P-450 content per mg of microsomal protein, and a 36% decrease in the biphenyl 4-hydroxylase specific activity in human cadaver liver that was a few hours old.
(16) The arterial network of the fresh animal cadaver was injected with a mixture of lead oxide and gelatin.
(17) Whether cyclosporine use will improve the cadaver renal allograft function in very young recipients remains to be established.
(18) The anatomical relationships of the terminal branch of posterior interosseous nerve have been studied in 57 cadaver and amputation specimens.
(19) From 20 cadavers septal cartilage was removed within 48 hours of death.
(20) We studied eustachian tube lengths and vectors of the tensor veli palatini muscle in 25 unilateral specimens from adult human cadavers.