autopsist
/ˈɔːtɑpsɪst/
noun
- A person who performs an autopsy (a medical examination of a dead body to find the cause of death).
- The autopsist carefully examined the organs to determine the cause of death.
- As a trained autopsist, she had seen many unusual cases in her career.
- The hospital hired a new autopsist to handle the increasing number of postmortem examinations.
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