You ain't wrong. I'm running a sci-fi game for some friends and they will be finding alien bodies soon, if they follow the plot hook. I was just wondering if there was an "official" term for this imaginary procedure.

I like that one, it does sound cool.

Necropsy tends to be used when referring to animals, when I've read something regarding an autopsy on an animal, it's always corrected to necropsy. Maybe it's a pedantic thing by the authors.