(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.
Postmortem
Definition:
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.