autopsy necropsy postmortem post-mortem PM postmortem examination post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease |
checkup medical checkup medical examination medical exam medical health check | a thorough physical examination, includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person |
examination scrutiny | the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) |
examination testing | the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned |
bank examination | an examination of the affairs and records of a bank by a state or federal bank examiner |
bladderwrack black rockweed bladder fucus tang Fucus vesiculosus | a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
air bladder swim bladder float | an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
bladder | a bag that fills with air |
gallbladder gall bladder | a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion |
bladder vesica | a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) |
urinary bladder | a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine |
bladder sphincter musculus sphincter vesicae | the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder, made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening |
introspection selfontemplation self-examination | the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct |
examen examination | a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) |
interrogation examination interrogatory | formal systematic questioning |
cross-examination | (law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination |
direct examination | (law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness |
redirect examination reexamination | (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination |
examination exam test | a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge, when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions |
bar examination bar exam | an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction, applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school, he passed the bar exam on his third try |
comprehensive examination comprehensive comp | an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge, she took her comps in English literature |
entrance examination entrance exam | examination to determine a candidate's preparation for a course of studies |
final examination final exam final | an examination administered at the end of an academic term |
midterm examination midterm exam midterm | an examination administered in the middle of an academic term |
oral oral exam oral examination viva voce viva | an examination conducted by spoken communication |
preliminary examination preliminary exam prelim | an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue |
test paper examination paper exam paper question sheet | a written examination |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
white campion evening lychnis white cockle bladder campion Silene latifolia Lychnis alba | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx, sometimes placed in genus Lychnis |
bladder campion Silene uniflora Silene vulgaris | perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx |
flower-of-an-hour flowers-of-an-hour bladder ketmia black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum | annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, Old World tropics, naturalized as a weed in North America |
bladder senna Colutea arborescens | yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food |
Chinese lantern plant winter cherry bladder cherry Physalis alkekengi | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orangeed calyx |
bladder fern | any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori |
brittle bladder fern brittle fern fragile fern Cystopteris fragilis | delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems |
mountain bladder fern Cystopteris montana | fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere |
bulblet fern bulblet bladder fern berry fern Cystopteris bulbifera | North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets |
bladder disorder | a disorder of the urinary bladder |
flaccid bladder | a urinary bladder disorder resulting from interruption of the reflex arc normally associated with voiding urine, absence of bladder sensation and over-filling of the bladder and inability to urinate voluntarily |
neurogenic bladder | a urinary bladder disorder caused by a lesion in the nervous system |
spastic bladder | a urinary bladder disorder resulting from spinal cord lesion or multiple sclerosis or trauma, absence of bladder sensation and incontinence and interrupted voiding of urine |