Cadaver
noun
A dead body, usually used in a medical or scientific context.
The medical students learned anatomy by studying a cadaver.
Often appears as...
- cadaver lab
- human cadaver
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Formal
Technical
noun
A dead body, usually after an unexplained or violent death.
The detectives found the cadaver hidden in the basement.
Often appears as...
- murdered cadaver
- unidentified cadaver
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Formal
noun
A dead body, usually used in a medical or scientific context.
The medical students learned anatomy by studying a cadaver.
Often appears as...
- cadaver lab
- human cadaver
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A dead body, usually after an unexplained or violent death.
The detectives found the cadaver hidden in the basement.
Often appears as...
- murdered cadaver
- unidentified cadaver
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used specifically in medical education or scientific research to refer to a body for study.
At the university, we visited the cadaver lab for our anatomy class.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Term
'Cadaver' is a respectful, clinical term preferred in medical settings over 'dead body'.
The surgeon discussed the procedure first on a cadaver before operating on a patient.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Impersonal
It implies an impersonal, scientific view rather than a personal loss.
Researchers studied the effects of the disease on the cadaver's tissues.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used specifically in medical education or scientific research to refer to a body for study.
At the university, we visited the cadaver lab for our anatomy class.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Term
'Cadaver' is a respectful, clinical term preferred in medical settings over 'dead body'.
The surgeon discussed the procedure first on a cadaver before operating on a patient.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Impersonal
It implies an impersonal, scientific view rather than a personal loss.
Researchers studied the effects of the disease on the cadaver's tissues.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used specifically in medical education or scientific research to refer to a body for study.
At the university, we visited the cadaver lab for our anatomy class.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Term
'Cadaver' is a respectful, clinical term preferred in medical settings over 'dead body'.
The surgeon discussed the procedure first on a cadaver before operating on a patient.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Impersonal
It implies an impersonal, scientific view rather than a personal loss.
Researchers studied the effects of the disease on the cadaver's tissues.
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
which is back here. And if you trigger, if you stimulate with an electrode, the precise spot, you will trigger an orgasm. And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people -- a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver. Now this is somebody who is brain-dead,
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What cameras see that...
and the recession over the years of many of the world's glaciers. Slow-motion film or high-speed photography have shown us the beating of a hummingbird's wings and the course of a bullet through its target. In one project, cadavers, that's dead bodies,
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with her we then did many practice runs that we continued to do them in the cadaver lab and as much as we think we know exactly we want to do every time something new comes up some other idea comes up to hopefully enhance what we're going to do for
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Sewer Diver Loves His...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right beneath the sidewalk the sewers of
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How a Woman's Donated...
body cadavers the way anatomist teach so they hired me to try and develop this expertise I hadn't developed any particular love for any piece of anatomy I loved the human body it's just fascinating and I didn't know much about
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Turning back the clock...
timers disease and not a different kind mention this is something that we can only currently do after death definitively but to address this problem my lab has been able to recover living cells from cadaver tissue from people
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Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
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Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
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Jack Choi: On the...
students can experience the dissection without a human cadaver. And the table form is important, and since it's touch-interactive, just like the way they do dissections in the lab,
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Vampires: Folklore,...
they would often find the cadavers looking very much alive -- longer hair and fingernails, bloated bellies, and blood at the corners of mouths.
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
which is back here. And if you trigger, if you stimulate with an electrode, the precise spot, you will trigger an orgasm. And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people -- a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver. Now this is somebody who is brain-dead,
Video examples
What cameras see that...
and the recession over the years of many of the world's glaciers. Slow-motion film or high-speed photography have shown us the beating of a hummingbird's wings and the course of a bullet through its target. In one project, cadavers, that's dead bodies,
Video examples
Watch One Family's...
with her we then did many practice runs that we continued to do them in the cadaver lab and as much as we think we know exactly we want to do every time something new comes up some other idea comes up to hopefully enhance what we're going to do for
Video examples
Sewer Diver Loves His...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right beneath the sidewalk the sewers of
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How a Woman's Donated...
body cadavers the way anatomist teach so they hired me to try and develop this expertise I hadn't developed any particular love for any piece of anatomy I loved the human body it's just fascinating and I didn't know much about
Video examples
Turning back the clock...
timers disease and not a different kind mention this is something that we can only currently do after death definitively but to address this problem my lab has been able to recover living cells from cadaver tissue from people
Video examples
Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
Video examples
Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
Video examples
Jack Choi: On the...
students can experience the dissection without a human cadaver. And the table form is important, and since it's touch-interactive, just like the way they do dissections in the lab,
Video examples
Vampires: Folklore,...
they would often find the cadavers looking very much alive -- longer hair and fingernails, bloated bellies, and blood at the corners of mouths.
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Hugo Chavez
Statesman
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.
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Angela Bassett
American Actress
I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
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Howard Graham Buffett
American Businessman
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Hugo Chavez
Statesman
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.
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Mary Roach
American Author
Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it's important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
Most of the people who are engaged in the subjects that I look into are pretty interesting. Whether its sex researchers or someone who's devoted their career to saliva or somebody who does research with cadavers, there's an inherent fascination in the subject matter of their work.
Quote examples
Angela Bassett
American Actress
I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
Quote examples
Howard Graham Buffett
American Businessman
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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