præ-mortem

See also: prae-mortem

English

Adjective

præ-mortem (not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of premortem.
   • 1846 January, B. Dowler, “Part I.—Original Communications”, “Art. V.—On Febrile Caloricity”, in Charles A. Lee, editor, The New York Journal of Medicine, and the Collateral Sciences, volume VI, New York: J. & H. G. Langley, […], page 58:

     The præ-mortem and the post-mortem heat mutually illustrate one another.

   • 1853 April, Thomas K. Chambers, “Part Third. Original Communications”, “Art. I. Decennium Pathologicum; or, Contributions to the History of Chronic Disease, from the St. George’s Hospital Records of Fatal Cases during Ten Years”, in The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, London: Samuel Highley, […]; and John Churchill, […], “Part II.—Diseases of the Kidneys”, page 490:

     It is obvious that statistical deductions such as I have described above must not be derived from selected cases, neither must they rest on the frail foundation of præ-mortem diagnosis.

   • 1885 January, “Part IV.—Notes and News”, in D. Hack Tuke, Geo. H. Savage, editors, The Journal of Mental Science, volume XXX, London: J. and A. Churchill, […], page 642:

     There were some old pericarditic adhesions over the left side of the left ventricle, and on separating these the heart-wall was torn through, and from the adherent infiltrated clot it was evident that at least a partial præ-mortem tearing of the heart-wall had occurred here, and perhaps complete perforation at a small rent, permitting of a slight hæmorrhage at the time of the collapse, 17 days before death.