1. An exhaustive critical personal examination or inspection of something.
2. The medical examination of a dead body in order to establish the cause and circumstances of death; also referred to as, "remains to be seen". 3. The examination, after death, of an animal body, usually human, with the intent of determining the cause of death, the extent of a disease or injuries, the effect of therapy, and the existence of any previously unrecognized antemortem pathological condition.

Also known as: necropsy, necroscopy, sectio cadaveris, thanatopsy, thanatopsia, necrotomy, postmortem, ptomatopsy, and ptomatopsia.