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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUTOPSY (Gr. aisros, self, and i4'tc, sight, investigation)  , a See also:personal examination, specifically a See also:post-mortem (" after See also:death ") examination of a dead See also:body, to ascertain the cause of death, &c . The See also:term " necropsy " (Gr. ueKpos, See also:corpse) is sometimes used in this sense . (See See also:CORONER and MEDICAL See also:JURISPRUDENCE .

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