cadaver
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When the mummy was found in 1991, it was initially treated as a normal cadaver.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Sheriff’s deputies even used ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to search Ruben Flores’ Arroyo Grande property in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The Chobot-Collier team never speaks to the authorities, or any police at all, save for the handlers of a cadaver dog used in a search for Theresa’s body, an effort launched on the flimsiest lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The family, alongside a volunteer team using cadaver detection dogs, also searched an "area of interest" they hoped would be a breakthrough in the case earlier this month.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
The new ant put down the cadaver vaguely and began dragging the other two in various directions.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Much of early topographical anatomy – the careful mapping of structures in relation to one another – depended on cadavers obtained through grave robbery.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
However, some of this research -- particularly one claiming to have found a plastic spoon's worth of microplastic in the brains of cadavers -- has recently come under stinging criticism from scientists.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Dr. Zoubi stored the cadavers in the hospital’s morgue for two weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Like most medical schools, the University of California does not profit from its body-donation programme, and it has strict guidelines for how corpses - or cadavers, as they are known medically - should be handled.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
Many of the people in Africa who came down with Ebola had handled Ebola-infected cadavers.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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