cadaver
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8.2
- noun
- /kəˈdævər/
- Specialized
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cadáver
- These two guys were selling cadavers to medical schools for dissection.
- a human cadaver
- cadaver dissection
- dissect a cadaver
But then after a while, he's dissecting cadavers, you know, to study the muscles and the skeleton.
- But then after a while, he's dissecting cadavers, you know, to study the muscles and the skeleton.
- After every quarter of every semester of anatomy class, you have cadavers, cadavers, cadavers, dead bodies.
- He he's like cutting the cadavers head off.
- You know, you, you want to, you want to avoid, you know, cadavers that could make you sick.
- So this the surgeons have just worked on cadavers.
- And yeah, and I think he had Eddie the cadaver dog.
- Well, like I said, there was a weak marking, positive marking by the cadaver dog in the in the Bush right outside the patio.
- If I did what these people wanted to my my novels would just be a catalog of cadavers.
- So I don't know how medical school is taught now these days, but back then you had cadavers, OK?
- It comes from like cadaver or some sort of the proceeds of some kind of surgery where they harvest the skin.
Examples
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In medical school, students study anatomy using a cadaver to understand the human body.
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The novel begins with the discovery of the mutilated cadaver of a young Air Force pilot.
Academic text (2000) -
Finally, he said that he saw the accused group carrying a cadaver in the night.
Academic text (2004) -
I did this in Army Medical Corps on a cadaver.
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In medical school, they make you work on animal cadavers before you get to the real thing.
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We actually get to look at a cadaver from Lee's Funeral Home.
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We must at all times be respectful and remember that a cadaver is more than a mere learning tool.
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But then after a while, he's dissecting cadavers, you know, to study the muscles and the skeleton.
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After every quarter of every semester of anatomy class, you have cadavers, cadavers, cadavers, dead bodies.
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When you crawled into that burning car, quite heroically, I might add, you almost died trying to rescue what I assume was a cadaver from the morgue.
Synonyms
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1.6
The dead remains of a person or animal
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4.9
A dead body of a person
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1.6
A person or animal that is no longer alive
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6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
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9.9
The human body in old writing, usually a dead body
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9.1
A dead body of a person
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cadaver comes from the Latin root cadere, which means 'to fall', so it originally referred to a 'fallen' body. That's why cadaver now means a dead human body, often one used for medical study.