Synonyms for post-mortem
- noun
- adjective
- adverb
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- adj. 1
After death.
The hospice's standard procedure for post mortem room cleaning looks very thorough.
- adv. 1
Occurring after death.
The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
Related words
- Other spellings
- post mortem postmortem
Forms
- Plural
- post-mortems → autopsies, necropsies, necrotomies, debriefings…
Example sentences
- autopsy Sami Bakir was conducting an autopsy at the morgue.
By length
- 7 letters
- autopsy3
- 8 letters
- necropsy
- 9 letters
- necrotomy
- 10 letters
- posthumous3, debriefing3, postmortal
- 12 letters
- posthumously4, postobituary, postmortally
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (autopsy3 = 3 syllables).