(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.
Postmortem
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Example Sentences:
(1) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(2) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(3) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(4) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(5) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(6) The clinical and postmortem findings of a patient with Lewy body pathology combined with multiple-system atrophy are described.
(7) Multiple system involvement, typical serologic findings, and postmortem evidence substantiated the diagnosis of lupus erythematosus.
(8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(9) Open lung biopsy established the diagnosis of "bleomycin lung," confirmed by postmortem examination.
(10) The eyes of a 72-year-old woman with a history of two branch retinal vein occlusions involving the left eye, were obtained postmortem and studied histopathologically.
(11) We documented significant fat and marrow microembolism by postmortem quantitative morphometry of lung sections.
(12) Anatomical data of the postmortem examination and histologic anomalies of the aorta confirm the diagnosis.
(13) Jirds autopsied at 33 days postmortem showed significant levels of parasitemia.
(14) Expression of proteins associated with immune function was investigated immunohistochemically in postmortem brain and spinal cord of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
(15) Studies in human postmortem atheromatous arteries and in animal models in vivo indicate that laser balloon angioplasty, by creating a lumen that approximates the size and smooth cylindrical shape of the balloon, should be effective in the treatment of important causes of restenosis.
(16) Experiments were designed to determine the rate and nature of postmortem autolysis in the gut of neonatal rats, as necessary baseline information for developing a model of human neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
(17) It was found at postmortem examination in only five of 47 infants with CF younger than 3 months, in five of 32 infants from 3 to 12 months, and in 18 of 67 children older than 1 year.
(18) elastase had no effect on the lung vascular pressures, the alveolar-arterial PO2 gradient (A-aPO2), the flow or protein concentration of the lung lymph, or the postmortem water volume of the lungs.
(19) The study of the records of Tjumen Province postmortem rooms indicated a relattively high specific weight of primary cancer of the liver.
(20) Follicular maturation was consistent with that seen in ovarian tissues removed at postmortem examination of infants.