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post-mortem examination post-mortem examination
post-mortem examination or autopsy, systematic examination of a cadaver for study or for determining the cause of death. Post-mortems use many methodical procedures to determine the etiology and pathogenesis of diseases, for epidemologic purposes, for establishment of genetic causes, and for... Read more
autopsy autopsy
autopsy (necropsy, post mortem) (aw-top-si) n. a review of the clinical history of a deceased person followed by external examination and dissection of the body and ancillary investigations (e.g. toxicology) in order to determine the cause of death.... Read more
medical jurisprudence medical jurisprudence
medical jurisprudence or forensic medicine, the application of medical science to legal problems. It is typically involved in cases concerning blood relationship, mental illness, injury, or death resulting from violence. Autopsy (see post-mortem examination ) is often used to determine the... Read more
cot death cot death
cot death Sudden unexpected death, with no cause identified after post-mortem examination, accounts for between one-third and one-half of deaths occurring in babies between the ages of 1 month and 1 year in developed countries.In 1855, Thomas Wakely, the founder editor of the Lancet, wrote about... Read more
Lactams Lactams
Antibiotics A variety of infectious diseases are caused by bacteria. Some bacterial infections can be treated using compounds that are collectively known as anti-biotics. Antibiotics act only on bacteria, and are not effective against viruses. The presence of antibiotics in blood or tissue... Read more
coroner coroner
coroner , judicial officer responsible for investigating deaths occurring through violence or under suspicious circumstances. The office has been traced to the late 12th cent. Originally the coroner's duties were primarily to maintain records of criminal justice and to take custody of all royal... Read more
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A. E. Housman (Alfred Edward Housman) , 1859-1936, English poet and scholar, whose verse exerted a strong influence on later poets. He left Oxford without a degree because he had failed his final examinations. Ever afterward he was a coldly reserved and aloof man, a recluse seemingly without... Read more
Taphonomy Taphonomy
Taphonomy Taphonomy, from the Greek, taphos, meaning tomb or grave, and nomy, meaning classification, is a field of paleontology, paleo-anthropology, and bioarcheology that studies human and animal remains in relation to the post-mortem (after death) transformations that occur in burial sites. In a... Read more
rigor mortis rigor mortis
rigor mortis , rigidity of the body that occurs after death. The onset may vary from about 10 min to several hours or more after death, depending on the condition of the body at death and on factors in the atmosphere, particularly temperature. Rigor mortis affects the facial musculature first and... Read more
Caesarean section Caesarean section
Caesarean section Delivery of a baby by the surgical incision of the mother's abdominal wall and uterus has a long history although it is only in the last century that the procedure of Caesarean section has carried any realistic expectation of maternal survival. The origin of the name... Read more

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