(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.
Necropsy
Definition:
(n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Group B, at 1, 2, 4, 9 and 12 months post infection two cats were necropsied.
(2) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
(3) Defects of mitochondrial DNA have been found at necropsy in the myocardium of patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome.
(4) At necropsy, specimens were collected for histological examination, rickettsial immunofluorescence, rickettsial titration, and antirickettsial antibody titration.
(5) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
(6) The frequency of strokes was studied in chronic chagasic and years of age, non-chagasic patients, older than 15 coming to necropsy in Uberaba, from 1979 than 1988.
(7) Necropsy, histologic evaluation, and electron microscopic evaluation revealed organisms in the proventriculus (surface, ductal, and glandular epithelium) compatible in site of development, size, and morphology with Cryptosporidium spp.
(8) At necropsy, the heart weight was increased (greater than 400 g) in all (mean 557 g), the left ventricular cavity was dilated in all, and at least 1 and usually 2 or 3 (86%) major epicardial coronary arteries were narrowed greater than 75% in cross-sectional area by atherosclerotic plaque.
(9) Retrospective analysis of necropsy findings of 705 woodchucks was performed to determine the prevalence and morphology of immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, its relationship to woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection, and the presence of major WHV antigens.
(10) Fibrous bands have been described in the elastic (conducting) pulmonary arteries in 38 cases at necropsy, which represents a necropsy incidence of 14.4%.
(11) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(12) The prevalence of hepatic pseudolipomas was 0.2% in a series of 1300 consecutive necropsies.
(13) The diagnosis was made on the basis of the clinical picture, of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, and of the necropsy findings in 7 of the cases.
(14) At necropsy of an 8-week-old pullet a 0.75 X 5.0 cm.
(15) A tumor involving the caudal portion of the brainstem was detected at necropsy after euthanasia of a 1-month-old llama with clinical signs consistent with vestibular disease.
(16) Necropsy showed remarkable brain edema and focal transmural angiitis at the site of the ruptured aneurysm.
(17) Presence (or absence) of flukes was confirmed by fecal examinations and examination of dissected livers at necropsy of the sheep.
(18) Measurement of cardiac enzymes in blood and pericardial fluid at necropsy can provide valuable additional information in cases of sudden death as a result of myocardial ischaemia which have occurred before macroscopic or microscopic evidence of myocardial infarction.
(19) ICR female mice, 6- to 8-weeks old, were exposed concurrently to 25 metacercarial cysts of Echinostoma caproni and 25 metacercarial cysts of Echinostoma trivolvis and necropsied 10 and 14 days post-infection.
(20) Goats surviving the initial phase of infection tended to overcome the disease with a corresponding increase in the number of abscesses that were sterile at necropsy.