Which term describes the examination of a body after death?

• A. Postmortem Examination is the autopsy, focusing on the examination of a body after death.
• B. Age Estimation involves skeletal aging.
• C. Trajectory Effect describes aging discrepancy.
• D. Medical History Review reviews pre-existing conditions.

Answer: (A)

The main concept is the procedure that examines a body after death to determine what happened. This is captured by the term that refers to a postmortem examination, commonly known as an autopsy. It is a medical procedure specifically performed to determine the cause and manner of death, assess injuries, and collect evidence from the body.

That makes the term the best choice because it directly names the process of examining a deceased body. The other options describe different activities: estimating age from skeletal remains (age estimation), the idea of a scoring or modeling concept about aging that isn’t a standard term for examining a body, and reviewing the person’s medical history before death (medical history review). These do not describe the act of examining the body after death itself.