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necropsy
This term is a specialized medical and veterinary designation for the post-mortem examination of a carcass. While it shares a functional purpose with the word autopsy, necropsy is the standard term used when the subject is a non-human animal. It carries a clinical, objective tone and is primarily employed in pathology, forensic veterinary medicine, and wildlife biology.
Because it describes a specific medical procedure, the word is used as a countable noun. It refers to the individual act of dissection and analysis rather than the general concept of death. In professional reports, it is often paired with adjectives like gross or histological to specify the level of examination performed.