【autopsy】 - SAT备考词汇

autopsy

UK:  ['ɔːtɒpsi]

US:  ['ɔ.tɑpsi]

复数：autopsies  现在分词：autopsying  过去分词：autopsied  

n.

1.尸检

2.尸体解剖[剖检]

3.尸体剖检

4.验尸

5.(事后的)分析,检查

1 . An autopsy is expected to be conducted today on the body of entertainer Michael Jackson who died in Los Angeles Thursday at the age of 50.
艺人迈克尔·杰克逊于周四在洛杉矶去世，享年50岁。（验尸官）今天将对其进行尸检。

2 . She was buried in secret but an autopsy later showed that she had been raped and sodomised.
随后，她被秘密地埋葬，而验尸报告显示她曾遭到强奸和性虐待。

3 . It was the first mummy to be subjected to a scientific autopsy, and Granville concluded that she died of ovarian cancer.
这是首具进行科学解剖的木乃伊，Granville认为她死于子宫癌。

4 . At the end of an autopsy the organs are either incinerated or put in a bag and placed back in the body before it is sewn shut.
尸体解剖的最后，器官要么被烧掉，要么被放进袋子里，放回体内，然后医生将尸体缝起来。

5 . At Einstein's autopsy in 1955, his brain was something of a disappointment: it turned out to be a tad smaller than the average Joe's.
在1955年对爱因斯坦尸体的解剖中，他的大脑多少让人有些失望——它比成年男子大脑的平均体积还稍微小一点。