postmortem

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postmortem /pəʊstˈmɔːtəm/ (postmortems)

• 1. N-COUNT A postmortem is a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out how they died. 屍檢

  A postmortem was carried out to establish the cause of death. 進行了屍檢以確定死因。

• 2. N-COUNT A postmortem is an examination of something that has recently happened, especially something that has failed or gone wrong. 事後調查

  The postmortem on the presidential campaign is under way. 對縂統競選的事後調查正在進行。

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