Answer: C. Checking the outside surface of the body.
An autopsy is a surgical procedure, which involves the detail examination of the body, by dissecting the dead body, in order to determine the cause and manner of death. A pre-autopsy is a procedure which involves the external examination of the dead body before conducting autopsy. It is done to find any mark of injury, healed wound or scar, bruise or any kind of discoloration, miscellaneous marks like ligature marks in suicidal cases, marks of snake bite. All these findings can give information about the cause and manner of death and proved by detailed autopsy.
