剖ぼう検けん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

autopsy; necropsy

Medical term for postmortem examination of a body, used for both human and animal contexts. 剖検する is the common verb form.

• 死し因いんを特とく定ていするために剖ぼう検けんが行おこなわれた。

  An autopsy was performed to determine the cause of death.

• 獣じゅう医いがその犬いぬを剖ぼう検けんした。

  The veterinarian necropsied the dog.