a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died
Example:
- to do/conduct/carry out a post-mortem
- The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned.
- They’re doing a post-mortem on him today.
Related words and phrases
a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed
Example:
- to hold a post-mortem on the party’s election defeat