autopsy

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
 * 2)  An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
 * 3) * 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
 * This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.
 * 1)  An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
 * 1) * 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
 * This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.
 * 1)  An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
 * 1)  An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

Usage notes

 * The term is usually used for non-human animals, with autopsy reserved for human beings.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: yarılma
 * Belarusian: ускрыццё
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 屍體解剖
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nekropsio, obdukcio, aŭtopsio
 * Estonian: lahang, lahkamine
 * Faroese: líkskurður
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გვამის გაკვეთა, აუტოფსია, ავტოფსია
 * German:, , , Leichenöffnung
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: otopsi
 * Hiligaynon: awtopsiya
 * Hindi: शवपरीक्षा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: өлікті жару
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تەشریح
 * Kyrgyz: кайра союуу
 * Latvian: autopsija, sekcija
 * Lithuanian: skrodimas, autopsija
 * Macedonian: аутопсија, обдукција
 * Malay: autopsi
 * Maori: arohaenga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: obduksjon
 * Nynorsk: obduksjon
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ауто̀псија, обду̀кција, ра́зудба
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: pitva
 * Slovene: avtopsija,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: uchunguzi wa maiti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: surimbangkay
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: аутопсі́я, ро́зтин
 * Uzbek: otopsi
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish: silminnäkijän havainto
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To perform an autopsy on.
 * 2)  To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
 * 3) * 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
 * The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.

Derived terms

 * autopsier

Translations

 * Dutch: (een) autopsie uitvoeren
 * Finnish: tehdä ruumiinavaus
 * German: (eine) Autopsie vornehmen,
 * Greek: διενεργώ νεκροτομή, διενεργώ νεκροψία
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Norwegian: obdusere
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: פּאַלמעסן