Translate post-mortem | into French | into Italian Definition of post-mortem
noun
(also post-mortem examination) an examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death: the hospital will want to carry out a post-mortem an analysis or discussion of an event held soon after it has occurred, especially in order to determine why it was a failure:an election post-mortem on why the party lost
adjective
[attributive] relating to a post-mortem: a post-mortem report happening after death:post-mortem changes in his body [as adverb]:assessment of morphology in nerves taken post-mortem
