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post-mortem examination



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A cordon remains in place outside the house in Fern Hill and a Home Office post-mortem examination was due to be carried out on Monday.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Dr Edward Sheffield, who performed an additional post-mortem examination on Kitchen's body in Bristol, said his cause of death had been cardiac failure due to coronary artery atheroma and the physiological effects of turbulence.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

One father told Nigerian media that his son had appeared healthy when relatives took him food the day before his death and called for an independent post-mortem examination.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

A post-mortem examination of Adams's brain found that he had been suffering from CTE, citing "unusually severe" damage to his brain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

A post-mortem examination revealed a complete wasting away of the bone marrow.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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