Exhumation is the act of taking a dead body out of the ground after it has been buried. Courts and police order an exhumation when they need to look again at how a person died — a new test, a new question, a suspected crime. It is formal, legal, and news language, and it is a heavy word because it touches graves and families. The core picture is always a burial being opened. People sometimes stretch it to “taking something buried back into the light,” but the home meaning is a body. You speak of the exhumation of a body, or of remains, not of a living person.

掘屍、開棺驗屍