ante-mortem
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of ante-mortem
Latin
Example Sentences
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Only about 30% of U.S. deaths are followed by autopsies, and when postmortem findings are compared with ante-mortem diagnoses, glaring discrepancies often occur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Minister Cromwell did not distinguish between ante-mortem and post-mortem axing, may I not "axe" you if you did not err in the footnote?
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the ante-mortem statement was put in evidence.
From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer
Where heart and soul are, there must, in the ante-mortem state, be the body also.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
That is, it would have been plain to any one but John, whose ailment had taken a fatal turn and had progressed to the ante-mortem state of blindness.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles
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