noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb
autopsy; necropsy
Medical term for postmortem examination of a body, used for both human and animal contexts. 剖検する is the common verb form.
死因を特定するために剖検が行われた。
An autopsy was performed to determine the cause of death.
獣医がその犬を
The veterinarian necropsied the dog.