Cadaver

/kəˈdævɚ/ noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. literary

    "He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming."

  2. 2
    the dead body of a human being wordnet

Example

More examples

"Tell him that I have perished and that my cadaver is now being used by medical students at a leading Catholic university."

Etymology

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

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