Marcus Sakey

I don't know if this is the flat-out strangest, but I'll never forget handling a human brain. It had been sliced into sections for autopsy, each about an inch thick, and felt like pork tenderloin. I swear to god, my first thought was that if you were to dust it with chipotle and cinnamon and saute it in butter, it would probably be delicious.

American Author

Mariska Hargitay

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

American Actress

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups.

American Politician

Bennet Omalu

I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

Nigerian Scientist

Kathy Reichs

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

American Writer

Michael Baden

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

American Celebrity

Karin Slaughter

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

S. Jay Olshansky

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

American Scientist

Al Goldstein

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

American Publisher

Patricia Cornwell

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

Used in medical or criminal investigations to determine death's cause.

Medical Context

A formal term often used in legal and medical documentation.

Formal Term

Handle with care as it can be sensitive for those close to the deceased.

Sensitive Topic

Figuratively describes examining the failure points of non-living systems.

Technical Analysis

Implies dissecting a problem to its core to understand it better.

Problem Solving

Can be used metaphorically in various fields, not just in medicine or technology.

Figurative Use

As a verb, it stresses the detailed and methodical nature of the examination. 

Detailed Examination

Not commonly used as a verb; the noun form 'autopsy' is preferred.

Medical Procedure

 their laboratories are becoming obsolete. And this is where we train most of our science workers and our researchers -- and our teachers, by the way. And there's a media that doesn't support the dissemination of any more than the most mundane and inane of information. There's pseudoscience, crop circles, alien autopsy, haunted houses,

Mae Jemison on teaching...

 we have tried to squeeze a lot of data into the system and one of the applications that we've been working on and this has gotten a little bit of traction worldwide is the application of virtual autopsies so again looking at very very large datasets and you saw those full-body scans that we can do

Visualizing the medical...

 encounter something like this because well affect your judgement affect your job the recovery team will arrive shortly to take the body tomorrow a forensic pathologist will conduct an autopsy and search for any clues that could help identify the young man and reveal how he died

Finding a Floater PIPE...

 Why would we need such a thing? Neuroscientists face a shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action. For centuries, scientists have tried to understand them using autopsies, animal models,

What are mini brains? -...

 that now populate the river are held in high esteem as they probe for snails they resemble scribes dipping pens into ink so are also credited with the power of knowledge but in reality they are important for a more practical reason evidence from autopsies on mummies has

Nile Ibis Birds Create...

 Now we have really made use of this, and we have tried to squeeze a lot of data into the system. And one of the applications that we've been working on -- and this has gotten a little bit of traction worldwide -- is the application of virtual autopsies.

Anders Ynnerman:...

 I'm curious how many of you have heard of SUDEP. This is a very well-educated audience, and I see only a few hands. SUDEP is when an otherwise healthy person with epilepsy dies and they can't attribute it to anything they can find in an autopsy.

An AI smartwatch that...

 comes in this guy show me around he said the veterinarian comes in every couple of weeks to conduct random autopsies so I thought well he must have seen the pattern by now surely in I mean another

Expanding our definition...

 by allowing doctors to see amyloid, the telltale protein buildup that otherwise couldn’t be confirmed without an autopsy. Meanwhile, researchers are actively working to develop new tracers

Using radioactive drugs...

 sides of their oblong bodies. But the insides of a flatworlder are forever mysterious unless exposed by some terrible accident or autopsy. And then one day, we came along.

Autopsy