antemortem confession.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : an antemortem confession.    From Dictionary.com. 

It tells you whether the bone was cut postmortem or antemortem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

I'm not suggesting that that means that it is an antemortem cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2003] Reference

"If you have antemortem blood that revealed protein-induced vitamin K deficiency, " she replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

Had Danny and I made too great a leap when comparing the antemortem and postmortem dental X-rays?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

This antemortem inspection is the only test required by the USDA before cattle are sent to slaughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Cow Epidemic is here to stay.] Reference

The odontologist compares recovered dentition to X-rays, handwritten charts, and treatment notes in antemortem records.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

We all looked from antemortem to postmortem and back, and back again, comparing details of bony architecture and microstructure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

The only other thing that he thought was worth mentioning was that the bruise on Aliso's cheek was antemortem by four or five hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trunk Music]

Though truncated on the postmortem film, the glob that remained in the molar was nearly identical to the top half of the glob on the antemortem film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

This, I think, you might agree, would account for the fingerprints recovered from the deceased's jacket and the antemortem facial bruising noted in the autopsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trunk Music]

This evisceration of organs should not be mistaken for antemortem injuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting Reality] Reference

Hanford suggests that this was an instance of antemortem digestion of the stomach which physiologists claim is impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

In the same vein, the early and antemortem identification of subclinically infected individuals requires demonstration of PrP.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Then -- so Wagner averred -- he eagerly listened to the expiring groans of his victims and carefully jotted down in his note-book their antemortem remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference

Improving the sensitivity of low level of CWD prion detection in excreta or at early sites of accumulation, may allow for earlier antemortem diagnosis and a stronger estimate of prevalence.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Presently the carrier boy with a morning paper came around, and in it Barclay read the account of Hendricks 'reported suicide, corroborated by his antemortem statement, written and delivered to Jacob Dolan an hour before he died.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Certain Rich Man] Reference

A review of recut lung-tissue specimens and published autopsy series from the 1918 influenza pandemic suggests that secondary bacterial pneumonia1 was an important cause of death, consistent with our preliminary analysis of antemortem blood cultures and the time to death of the patients. 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The prevalence of fear, paranoia and irrational hatred in today's GOP represents the antemortem gasps of a doomed species struggling to survive in evaporating pools of their own toxic waste as they mercilessly slice and dice one another in futile attempts to become the biggest fish in an increasingly smaller and smaller pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

We review here studies that reported more than 10 sterile-site antemortem cultures from adults with pneumonia and those without pneumonia in an extensive archive of articles about the 1918 pandemic in any language (www3. niaid.nih.gov/topics/Flu/1918/bibliography. htm).    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

"It is the antemortem statement of one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partners of Chance] Reference

"Problem is, we don't have antemortem blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]