(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.
Necrotomy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The following surgical interventions were performed: 193 incisions, 32 amputations of varying extent and 15 large-scale necrotomies.
(2) Based on clinical observations of pyo-necrotic lesions of the foot in patients with diabetic mellitus and on an analysis of their personal operations performed on these patients the authors support the tendency to local necrotomies.
(3) The central necrosis neighboring the surface of the pons or the fourth ventricle was removed with CO2-LASER and cavitron ultrasonic aspirator (necrotomy) and a few pellets were given in the residual tumor in four cases.
(4) The patient was healed by radical necrotomy of the affected fasciae and subcutaneous adipose tissue and via active antibiotic, general tonic and antidiabetic therapy.
(5) After complete necrotomy, continuous irrigation with suction drainage was begun.
(6) From 1975 to 1979 (the first period), the treatment of choice was low-dose irradiation and frequent necrotomy.
(7) They transported him to the University Hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands where physicians did a necrotomy of the scrotal, penile, and perineal skin and removed both testes.
(8) At the second operation for the tumor, cyst formation was clinically confirmed and necrotomy as well as evacuation of the large cyst was performed after adjuvant therapy.
(9) Laser therapy of wounds accomplishes adequate necrotomy, acts aseptically on the wound surfaces, inhibits the wound microbial flora and stimulates the regeneration processes.
(10) The second surgical operation of the recurrent tumor, with necrotomy and evacuation of the large cyst were performed after adjuvant therapy.
(11) 24 hours after necrotomy and bilateral orchiectomy, the necrotizing process had not spread.
(12) A high effectiveness of early necrotomies in the prophylaxis of such deformities is emphasized.
(13) The necrotomy of brain stem glioma and local administration of anti-tumor-agents in residual tumor showed excellent results in some cases.
(14) The surgical principle involved necrotomy, continuous post-operative bursal lavage or biliary sanitation and (or) pancreas drainage in the case of interstitial oedematous pancreatitis.