Your veterinarian will tell you that only humans get autopsies. Animals get necropsies (which is probably the word your correspondent was groping for, only he got his languages garbled). Something to do with the idea that autopsy means looking at yourself. Even if that isn’t what it originally meant.
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Louise Hope:
October 4th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Your veterinarian will tell you that only humans get autopsies. Animals get necropsies (which is probably the word your correspondent was groping for, only he got his languages garbled). Something to do with the idea that autopsy means looking at yourself. Even if that isn’t what it originally meant.