post mortem

Meanings

Adjective

• Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.

Adverb

• Occurring after death.

Noun

• An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.
• Any investigation after the conclusion of an activity, particularly when said activity produces an unwanted outcome.
• At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.

Related

Similar words

• posthumous
• posthumously

Opposite words

• antemortem
• anthumous
• predeath
• prehumous
• premortem
• anthumously
• prehumously

Origin

• From Latin post ("afterwards") + mortem, from mors.