The definition I had heard for autopsy was "examination of a cadaver to attempt to determine the cause of it's death". I guess you're saying that's wrong. What's the proper definition? I'm guessing it does have something to do with examining cadavers but there are restrictions. Is the restriction that the cadaver be human? Or that both the examiner and cadaver be human? Or possibly that both cadaver and examiner be intelligent creatures of the same kind in some sense (that's what "auto" sort of sounds like to me)?