Other forms: postmortems
A postmortem is an examination after death, or a review of a failure. Order a postmortem, the postmortem showed, a project postmortem.
The medical term is properly a post-mortem examination, and Britain also calls it an autopsy. The office use is now everywhere: a blameless postmortem after a failure asks what went wrong rather than who did it.
1nounpostmortemAn examination after death, or a review of a failure.
“A postmortem showed that the man had died of a heart attack.”
postmortem is an examination.