Pathology

autopsy

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

autopsy XVII. — F. autopsie or modL. autopsia — Gr. autopsíā seeing with one's own eyes; see AUTO-, OPTIC, -Y3.

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