post mortem
The term post mortem (Latin for "after death") is used in medicine or criminology . If something happens to the dead body after the death of a person or animal, it is post mortem . The act was then performed postmortem . The opposite of post mortem is ante mortem or (in medicine) intra vitam , i.e. a change or action during one's lifetime.
In literature, the term occurs alongside the more frequently used posthumous (posthumous) for works that are only published after the death of their author. In addition, chess players also refer to the analysis of a game that has just ended as "post mortem".
A will is a declaration of will post mortem , that is, it becomes valid “after death”.
See also
- In project management , the post-mortem analysis is used to retrospectively process experiences in the implementation of projects.
- ante mortem
- In computer science , a post-mortem dump is a memory dump that was generated by the operating system after a program crashed. A post-mortem analysis is the passage of the log file and other references, for example, a debugger .
- Post mortem auctoris
Web links
Wiktionary: post mortem - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
