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語源

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- +‎ -opsy.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɔ.tɑp.si/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈɑ.tɑp.si/
• (米国発音, dated) IPA: /ɔˈtɑp.si/
• (Indic) IPA: /ə.ʈɔːp.si/
• ハイフネーション: au‧top‧sy

名詞

autopsy (plural autopsies)

1. A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.

   Synonyms: necropsy, necrotomy, postmortem

   The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.

2. (figuratively) An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.

   Synonym: postmortem

   • 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)

     This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.

   • 2017 January 19, Steve Phillips, “The Next DNC Chair Must Abandon Color-Blind Politics”, in The Nation‎, new York, N.Y.: The Nation Company, L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 August 2022:

     Understanding exactly what happened and why is an essential first step to winning back the White House. ¶ In addition to the autopsy, the DNC should abandon the penchant for secrecy and embrace the principles of transparency and accountability that helped inspire and engage millions of people to participate in the 2008 Obama campaign.

3. (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.

使用する際の注意点

• The term necropsy is usually used for non-human animals, with autopsy reserved for human beings.

派生語

動詞

autopsy (third-person singular simple present autopsies, present participle autopsying, simple past and past participle autopsied)

1. (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
2. (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
   • 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)

     The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.

派生語

• autopsier

アナグラム

• outpays, payouts