Definition of Autopsying

1. Verb. (present participle of autopsy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autopsying

1. autopsy [v] - See also: autopsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autopsying

autopolyploidy
autopositioning
autoprocessing
autoprotective
autoprotolysis
autopsia
autopsias
autopsic
autopsical
autopsied
autopsies
autopsist
autopsists
autopsorin
autopsy
autopsying (current term)
autoptic
autoptical
autoptically
autoradiogram
autoradiograms
autoradiograph
autoradiographed
autoradiographic
autoradiographs
autoradiography
autoradiolyses
autoradiolysis
autoreact
autoreactive

Literary usage of Autopsying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"It seems obvious, therefore, that efforts should be made to secure the privilege of autopsying as large a proportion as possible of the unclaimed dead. ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"On autopsying these dogs, we found the cut edges of the muscular coats to be still gaping widely. In some cases the bulging mucosa was partially restrained ..."

3. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"In 1914 our attempts were more successful, and I was fortunate in autopsying one case of the disease in California and three cases in Nevada where, ..."

4. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"On killing and autopsying the animals, tubercle bacilli can then be demonstrated in smears from the lesions, and the inoculation is considered positive. ..."

5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"It may be dropped for a few seconds into boiling water to sterilize the surface. When autopsying experimental animals it is well to dip the dead animal into ..."

6. Medical Education in Europe: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the by Abraham Flexner, Henry Smith Pritchett (1912)
"... actually autopsying one of the three chief parts and writing the protocol; he must make two or three microscopic preparations, expounding at least one, ..."

7. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"On autopsying the animals very peculiar changes are observed in the diaphragm. The parts surrounding the central tendon are stained intensely brown, ..."

8. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"This he sought to prove, and succeeded in doing so, by studying patients showing these conditions and, when they died, autopsying them to see whether or not ..."

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