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[kuh-dav-er]

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noun

a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin cadāver dead body, corpse; akin to cadere to fall, perish (see decay, chance)

Related forms

ca·dav·er·ic, adjective

Synonyms
See body.

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Example Sentences

One company that handles cadaver tissue admitted that human error could have introduced bacteria.

The candidate should also be able to supervise a gross-anatomy cadaver lab.

It proved to be the latter, and is now a cadaver worthy of extensive autopsy, to be learned from.

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One company that handles cadaver tissue admitted that human error could have introduced bacteria.

The candidate should also be able to supervise a gross-anatomy cadaver lab.

It proved to be the latter, and is now a cadaver worthy of extensive autopsy, to be learned from.

Split down the middle, a skinless human cadaver offers an eye on the body's inner workings.

He explains the disgust mechanism with a metaphor, paralleling med school students to the digust reaction of their cadaver.

Yet even at the time, there were whispers that the cadaver brought home in glory might be the wrong one.

The cadaver dogs clambering through the wreckage had a hard time picking up the scent of bodies because of the ash.

Enter resomation, an alternative to cremation for the eco-conscious cadaver.

Some even took time to reflect and thank the individual and their family for making the cadaver available.

In any event, we'll no longer need to wonder how much more cadaverous a cadaver can look.

Then to see a cadaver on a dissecting table and to find at the end of term that there was nothing left except a.

Seeking to use synthetic instead of cadaver grafts, he went to a department store to buy some nylon.

Researchers are investigating allografts, bone grafts taken from another living person or a cadaver.

In the rendition opposite, the cadaver gestures, inviting us to look into her open abdominal cavity.

Under many a desk, there would be a cadaver crammed into the arch meant for knees.

The patient's entire liver is removed and replaced with a healthy liver from a cadaver or a lobe from a living donor.

The cadaver livers are reserved for the sickest children.

We use grafts from the palate of the patient and synthetic and cadaver gum grafts.

The searchers have been aided by cadaver dogs and by elevated views from the extended arms of fire trucks.

Practicing on a cadaver can provide some valuable experience, but there often aren't enough good specimens to go around.

The good doctor catches on when the latest cadaver turns out to be his own fiancee.

The image of the cadaver stands in for death, for the proposition that smoking.

Dee recently made headlines by transplanting a cadaver bone into the arm of a young woman injured in an auto accident.

Burton's mock-Victorian tale of a romantic misunderstanding between a fishmonger's son and the cadaver he accidentally jilts.

In cases where parts of a body are displayed, the condition of the rest of that cadaver is unknown, the lawyer said.

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World English Dictionary

cadaver (kəˈdeɪvə, -ˈdɑːv-)

—n
	med a corpse

[C16: from Latin, from cadere to fall]

ca'daveric

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

cadaver

c.1500, from L. cadaver "dead body (of men or animals)," probably from a perf. part. of cadere "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" (see case (1)). Cf. Gk. ptoma "dead body," lit. "a fall;" poetic English the fallen "those who died in battle."

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Medical Dictionary

cadaver ca·dav·er (kə-dāv'ər)
n.
A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.

ca·dav'er·ic (-ər-ĭk) adj.

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