00:00Autopsy, or post-mortem examination, or necropsy for non-human corpses, is the medical examination of corpses.
00:06The term comes from the Greek autopsia, meaning action or duty by oneself.
00:09A forensic autopsy is a mandatory examination carried out within a judicial framework at the request of a
00:15investigating judge or prosecutor
00:17who appoints one or more forensic specialists to conduct a series of examinations to determine the cause of death
00:21initially considered suspicious.
00:23A clinical autopsy, also called a medico-scientific or medico-hospital autopsy, is an optional examination requested by the family or
00:32the doctor,
00:33most often carried out by a specialist in anatomical pathology who seeks to discover the true causes of death
00:38'a sick person.'
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