Meaning & use
postmortem
An examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death, or a review conducted after an event.
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The coroner ordered a postmortem to determine the exact cause of death.
The team held a postmortem meeting to figure out why the project had failed.
A note on using this word
Beyond medicine, postmortem is widely used in business and project management to mean a review of what went wrong after the fact.
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