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necropsy |
(n): an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
(n): the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
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"On January 2, a team of scientists ... began a necropsy—measuring and photographing the carcass and collecting blood and tissue samples that would later help them determine what the whale had been suffering from."
--Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 232