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cadaver

noun as in dead body

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We’ve shown that medical students are disgusted by cadavers.

One way to understand the first claim about unique movement patterns is to move cadaver legs through a running motion.

I lit a big fire in the fireplace and all kinds of little winged cadavers fell into the fire from the chimney above.

From Fortune

Kaiser’s preexisting plan to teach students anatomy using virtual reality simulators, rather than cadavers, proved fortuitous.

From Time

That’s when they use cadaver cartilage and bone transplants on a lateral femur.

From Ozy

I would go to dissection classes, cut up a human cadaver, and then go home and write about what I had learned and felt.

It took nearly a week to link the floating cadaver and the missing Iranian.

I did a voiceover in a short called Cadaver, and then a short when I was 11 [First Bass].

A new study claims to have found the elusive spot in the cadaver of an 83-year-old woman.

Cadaver dogs have been known to give “false positives,” but one study found them to be accurate more than 90 percent of the time.

The low, almost feminine, voice sharply accentuates the cadaver-like face and figure.

Then when his fingers came in contact with the viscera of a cadaver, that of a little child, he cried out in horror.

Remove the tissue or organ from the cadaver as soon after death as possible, using great care to avoid distortion or injury.

But his disappointment and humiliation showed through his smile, as the hollows and bones through the skin of a cadaver.

Linnaeus tells us that 'Tres muscae consumunt cadaver equi aeque cito ac leo.'

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cadaver, such as: carcass, corpse, skeleton, body, deceased, and remains.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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