verb
- past tense of necropsy; performed a post-mortem examination on (a dead body), especially of an animal
Usage: medical; veterinary
Examples
- The veterinarian necropsied the horse to determine the cause of death.
- All the birds found dead were necropsied by the wildlife pathologist.
- The lab necropsied several specimens from the disease outbreak.
- After the cattle died mysteriously, they were necropsied for toxins.
- The marine biologist necropsied the whale that washed ashore.
- Each animal was carefully necropsied following standard protocols.