different between necrotomy vs autopsy

English

Etymology

From necro- +? -tomy.

Noun

necrotomy (plural necrotomies)

1. The dissection of a cadaver.
2. (medicine) The surgical removal of dead tissue, especially bone.

Synonyms

• (dissection of a cadaver): autopsy, necropsy, post mortem

Anagrams

• normocyte

English

Alternative forms

• autopsia (archaic)

Etymology

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (autopsí?, “seeing with one's own eyes”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ô?t?ps?, IPA^(key): /???t?psi?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t?psi/
• Hyphenation: au?top?sy

Noun

autopsy (plural autopsies)

1. A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

2. An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
   • 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)

     This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.

3. (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

Usage notes

• The term necropsy is usually used for non-human animals, with autopsy reserved for human beings.

Synonyms

• (dissection of a cadaver): necropsy, necrotomy; postmortem
• (after the fact examination): postmortem

Translations

Verb

autopsy (third-person singular simple present autopsies, present participle autopsying, simple past and past participle autopsied)

1. (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
2. (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
   • 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)

     The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.

Derived terms

• autopsier

Translations

Anagrams

• outpays, payouts