Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dead body; a corpse: as, “a mere cadaver,” Boyle; especially, a body prepared or used for dissection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dead human body; a corpse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the dead body of a human being
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I love the piece, the Trio, the Flute Sonata, Dialogues des Carmelites, and Fiancailles pour rire (how can you resist a text like "my cadaver is soft as a glove"?) but I think maybe you're reading history back into the Sextet, rather than finding it there.
Les anges musiciens Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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I called another cadaver dog handler that I know that works for Osceola County sheriff ` s office, and had her come in for a secondary search.
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I called another cadaver dog handler that I know that works for Osceola County sheriff ` s office, and had her come in for a secondary search.
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These images of Christmas cheer are miles away from where I sit now, at the Spence Academy for Young Ladies, forced to construct a drummer boy ornament using only tinfoil, cotton, and a small bit of string, as if performing some diabolical experiment in cadaver regeneration.
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Watching a forensic pathologist pop the braincase on a cadaver is a little disturbing, but it’s not so bad after you see it done once or twice.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Does the sight of actual surgery freak you out? 2007
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In "Take All of Murphy," the anatomy demonstrator tells the medical students, "This fine cadaver is your first patient.
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam: Questions 2007
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Yet Brown’s response to the loss of one who was trying to make as good a fist as possible of the post of defence procurement is to appoint a political cadaver from the Necropolis of the ‘Winter of Discontent’.
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Yet Brown’s response to the loss of one who was trying to make as good a fist as possible of the post of defence procurement is to appoint a political cadaver from the Necropolis of the ‘Winter of Discontent’.
Archive 2007-11-04 2007
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The Los Angeles Times says a coroner's sniffer dog, known as a "cadaver dog", found the hand about 50 yards from where the head was discovered.
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This almost got as ugly as those toe-tag cadaver cakes.
Belly Cakes, Continued Jen 2009
maire commented on the word cadaver
you must be crazy to think we cadaver have a relationship now that you're dead.
November 1, 2007
bilby commented on the word cadaver
Teehee!
April 7, 2008