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[ noun ] an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

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(J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)

Although biopsies have shown structural changes in some of the reported cases of steroid induced weakness , this case provides the only example known to us in which necropsy afforded the opportunity for extensive study of multiple muscle groups .

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examination autopsy

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