post mortem
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]post mortem (not comparable)
- Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.
- We shouldn't let these post mortem injuries distract us while looking for the cause of death.
- The post mortem timeline is incomplete.
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[edit]post mortem (not comparable)
- Occurring after death.
- The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.
Synonyms
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[edit]occurring after death — see also posthumously
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Noun
[edit]post mortem (plural post mortems)
- An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
- (figuratively, management) Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
- Synonyms: debriefing, AAR
- 2014 September 3, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan, The Practice of Cloud System Administration (Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems; 2)[1], Addison-Wesley, page 300:
- Each user-visible outage or SLA violation should be followed by a postmortem and conclude with implementation of the recommendations in the postmortem report.
- 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
- After a serious delay there is often a post mortem on what happened, but this is usually in-house.
- 2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice[2]:
- Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"
- (British, university slang, obsolete) At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.
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[edit]investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
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investigation after something considered unsuccessful
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References
[edit]- (second examination): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
See also
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin post mortem (literally “after death”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]post mortem (invariable)
- post mortem
- Synonym: postumo
Adverb
[edit]post mortem
- post mortem
- Synonym: postumamente
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin post mortem.
Pronunciation
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[edit]post mortem (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, literary) posthumously, post mortem
- Synonym: pośmiertnie
Further reading
[edit]- post mortem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- post mortem in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “post mortem”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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