autopsy

medical examination of a corpse
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autopsy
Enrique Simonet · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

autopsy ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,963 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Location: morgue[2]
  • Subclass of: dissection[3], medical test[4]
  • Part of: inquiry[5]
  • Commons category: Autopsies[6]
  • Product or material produced: diagnosis[7], evidence[8]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12], New International Encyclopedia[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[14]
  • Different from: vivisection[15]
  • Has goal: discovery[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/autopsy[18]

Why It Matters

autopsy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] autopsy is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  17. [18] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 31vxLb
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → autopsy
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: autopsy, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289914671|autopsy (#289914671)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007934-pitva
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007934-pitva, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 19w ago · O Breixo · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 81008
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 81008"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 3963, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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