http://wordie.org/words/necropsy Comments for the word 'Necropsy' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/necropsy#comments <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0781730120/ref=nosim/librarythin08-20">Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions</a> lists it as a <a href="/words/synonym">synonym</a> for <a href="/words/autopsy">autopsy</a>. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:52:49 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/necropsy#comments http://wordie.org/words/necropsy#comments "On January 2, a team of scientists ... began a <a href="/words/necropsy">necropsy</a>—measuring and photographing the carcass and collecting blood and tissue samples that would later help them determine what the whale had been suffering from."<br />--Nathaniel Philbrick, <i>In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship</i> Essex, 232 Thu, 01 May 2008 11:15:55 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/necropsy#comments