Latin phrase meaning 'after death,' most commonly used in 'post-mortem' to describe an examination of a dead body or analysis of a failed project.
From Latin 'mors' (death) plus the accusative case ending '-tem'. It's a Latin preposition phrase that's been adopted into English legal and medical terminology.
Post-mortems aren't just about dead bodies—in business and tech, teams do 'post-mortem meetings' to analyze what went wrong, using the death metaphor to mean analyzing something that failed.
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