Word Meanings - AUTOPSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. (more info) 1. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment.

Additional info about word: AUTOPSY

Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination. (more info) 1. Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

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• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• EXPERIMENT
  , To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience. Sir T. Herbert.
• SEEDLESS
  Without seed or seeds.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• SEEDCOD
  A seedlip.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• HAGSEED
  The offspring of a hag. Shak.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.