1 (also post-mortem examination) ~ (on sb) a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died
SYNAUTOPSY:
to do / conduct / carry out a post-mortem * The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned.
2 ~ (on sth) a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed:
to hold a post-mortem on the party's election defeat
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