autopticallyadv.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 342 It would autoptically silence that dispute out of which side Eve was framed. View more context for this quotation

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 174 That the galaxy is a meteor..the telescope hath autoptically confuted.

1704 Athenæ Redivivæ vi. 218/1 This Animal doth autoptically evince us, that..this more ignoble Creature, hath also a Circulation of its nutritive Humour.

1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. at Cartilago Cartilages are supposed to be supplied with nerves, but they are too minute to be autoptically demonstrated.

1834 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 411 Dejean has ascertained autoptically that C. violacea, Fabr. is the immaculate variety of this species.

1883 H. W. Henshaw in 2nd. Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1880–1 153 It is indeed perhaps more likely that the ancient inhabitants of the Upper Mississippi Valley were autoptically acquainted with the mastodon than with either of the above-named animals.

1927 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1926 78 116 T. pilsbryi..is not autoptically known to me. It resembles T. tatei in being ribbed.

1999 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 118 178 The present Coptic text was autoptically collated by Frederik Wisse in 1970–1973 and again by Birger Pearson in 1993.

1916 Laryngoscope 26 929 Congestive compression has never been corroborated autoptically.

1963 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 66 691/1 Neither coronary sclerosis nor degenerative lesions of the myocardium have been reported with regularity, possibly because of the relatively young age of autoptically verified cases.

2007 Legal Med. 9 315/1 The autoptically confirmed massive cerebral oedema was deemed as being the cause of death.