cadaver

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That included laying the man’s body in an empty equipment bay hours after his death and letting employees, including the office secretary, take turns trying to insert an endotracheal breathing tube down the cadaver’s throat.

From Seattle Times

In a darkened lab at the museum, Taylor and Lakota grad student Chance Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, deploy beetles to scour the flesh from modern horse cadavers.

From Science Magazine

Rescuers sifted through rubble until late Friday afternoon, using cadaver dogs and drones before determining there was no more evidence that anyone else perished.

From Washington Post

Excavators were deployed and some worked with rescue dogs to sniff out possible signs of life and cadavers.

From Seattle Times

The risk of contagion is mainly to those who handle cadavers, like pathologists, medical examiners and health care workers, and in settings like hospitals and nursing homes, where many deaths may occur.

From New York Times