Sekirov Dictionary

autopsy

UK /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/US /ˈɔ.tɑp.si/

noun 3
verb 2
forms 3

noun3

•
a close medical study of the inside of someone who has died, done to learn what killed them
- The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.
•
(figurative) An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
- This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy. — 1977
(rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

verb2

To perform an autopsy on.
•
To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
- The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him. — 1977

forms

autopsied · autopsying · autopsies

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