Journal of Forensic Medicine

Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsløws Vej 17, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark

Publications

• Editorial   
  Post-mortems are performed to legitimate or clinical purposes
  Author(s): Lene Hoffmann Tr�ger*
  
  The expression "post-mortem" gets from the Ancient Greek αὐτοψία autopsia, "to see with one's own eyes", got from αὐτ�?ς (cars, "oneself") and �?ψις (opsis, "sight, view")."post-mortem" has been utilized since around the seventeenth century, it alludes to the assessment of inside the dead human body to find infections and reason for death... Read More»
  

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