pre-mortem
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4ADJ.
appropriate, kind, most, nasty
VERB + PRE-MORTEM
begun, happened, having, occur
PRE-MORTEM + NOUN
hospital, photographers
ADV.
only
Definitions
adj
Alternative spelling of premortem.
The only guess I can make, and nothing beyond guessing seems possible in the case, is that the monument, if really erected in memory of Sir John Ackland, was executed in his lifetime, at his order and cost, and was completed—perhaps erected—in 1613–14. Pre-mortem monuments are by no means rare.
This should be borne in mind whenever alcohol has been measured in serum or plasma in hospital prior to death or where a pre-mortem hospital sample of serum or plasma is subsequently analyzed for alcohol.
adv
Alternative spelling of premortem.
Histology of internal organs and fluid found in body cavities can be useful for even moderately decomposed animals to identify haemorrhaging and blood clotting, which would only occur pre-mortem.
Evidently these doubts provoked not only astonishment, but concern as to whether the push for her canonization, which had even begun pre-mortem, was appropriate.
noun
Alternative spelling of premortem.
The pre-mortem is the most elegant of the methods for its simplicity, but it can suffer from limited expert participation and a less rigorous process. Pre-mortems have gained traction among military planners as way to overcome placing too much confidence in their own plans.
Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."
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6The only guess I can make, and nothing beyond guessing seems possible in the case, is that the monument, if really erected in memory of Sir John Ackland, was executed in his lifetime, at his order and
WiktionaryThis should be borne in mind whenever alcohol has been measured in serum or plasma in hospital prior to death or where a pre-mortem hospital sample of serum or plasma is subsequently analyzed for alco
WiktionaryHowever, more recently photography has also been preoccupied with a kind of pre-mortem state as photographers become increasingly interested in the process whereby the body decays and transforms until
WiktionaryHistology of internal organs and fluid found in body cavities can be useful for even moderately decomposed animals to identify haemorrhaging and blood clotting, which would only occur pre-mortem.
WiktionaryEvidently these doubts provoked not only astonishment, but concern as to whether the push for her canonization, which had even begun pre-mortem, was appropriate.
WiktionaryDr Green concluded that he could not entirely exclude the possibility of post-mortem injury; however, those suspicions which he held about something nasty having happened pre-mortem were supported by
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