noun
- a person who performs or specializes in autopsies; a pathologist who conducts postmortem examinations
Usage: medical/technical term; also called a forensic pathologist or medical examiner in some contexts
Examples
- The autopsist determined the cause of death was a heart attack.
- The hospital hired a new autopsist to work in the pathology department.
- An experienced autopsist can often identify the time of death from physical evidence.
- The autopsist's report was crucial to the criminal investigation.
- Medical students shadowed the autopsist during the postmortem examination.