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Hard one.
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Nice try, but the "auto" in autopsy refers to working on the body of the same species as oneself, when a human inspects a dead human.
EDIT: this is actually incorrect, etymologically it means witnessing something with the own eyes, from the Greek language, see answer below.
When working on a different species, like an animal, it's called a necropsy.
Don't run the joke
But I love pedantry.
Too late.
Run faster?
Get to the choppah
Makes the joke even better implying they have a fursona
If you are serious, it originally means "an eye-witnessing, a seeing for oneself". Referring exclusively to dead bodies came later.
Damn you're right, I stand corrected!
The explanation I gave came from my teacher at the university in my linguistics class, better double check everything I guess!
I remember one false etymology my historical linguistics teacher tought me at university and it was debunked on r*ddit so I totally feel you
Thank you, it's a good day when I get to learn something new!
Oh damn I learned a new thing today. Necropsy sounds sick as hell