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Enterotome

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal as in post mortem examinations

Imbibition

The act or process of imbibing or absorbing as the post mortem imbibition of poisons

Necroscopic

Or or relating to post mortem examinations

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Corpse

(English) Anatomy Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75), makes dissection legal. See DISSECTION. As to post-mortem examinations, see (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 161

Diem clausit extremum

next heir to him. It was one of the five writs issued by the Crown for taking inquisitions post mortem. See Hubback on Succn., ch. vii, P. 584.

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