Necropsy vs. Autopsy?

A necropsy refers to an examination of a body, postmortem, to determine the cause of death or illness. An autopsy is essentially the same, except it is an examination of “self” (i.e. humans).

How interesting.

So, hypothetically speaking, if the examination of a deceased cat were done by a feline pathologist ( hey, I did say hypothetical) then it could properly be termed a feline autopsy?

@Buttonstc I suppose it would. That made for an odd mental picture.

I’m just in a whacky mood tonight for some reason :)

But I did learn something new tonight. One more reason why I appreciate Fluther as I do.

At first glance I thought this question was about death metal bands.

No thanks. I would rather nit decide on one or the other. I will leave that decision up to the authorities after I am gone. :-)

Probably for the same reason we call ourselves “carnivores” (or omnivores, to be more precise,) as opposed to “cannibals?”