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necrophiliac |
necrophilism |
necrophobia |
necrophore |
necropolis |
necropsy
| necroscopic
| necroscopical
| necrose
| necrosed
| necrosis
necropsy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun necropsy has 1 sense
- necropsy(n = noun.act) autopsy, pm, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination - an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease; Array is a kind of examination, scrutiny
CIDE DICTIONARY
necropsy, n. [Gr. nekro`s a dead body + sight: cf. F. nécropsie.].
A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
necropsy, n. (also necroscopy) (pl. -ies) = AUTOPSY 1.
Etymology
NECRO- after AUTOPSY, or + -SCOPY
ROGET THESAURUS
necropsy
Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.
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