cadaver

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After death the cadaver was opened and

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  1. noun A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.

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  • Then the rival ordered a picture of himself, proud and beautiful, giving a lesson in anatomy, armed and equipped for business, and the cadaver was—the other doctor. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • He ranged the flash beam for some seconds over the chamber, but giving most of the time to the corpse on the floor The cadaver was a gruesome sight Stepping back, Hardboiled picked up a hand bag. —  022 - The Annihilist
  • Nearly two years later, and the cadaver is still digging. —  Nice Deb
  • You scratched out music on your guitar like a rusty bone saw on a cadaver, and believe me I know what that sounds like. —  The Toque
  • There was a lot of fascinating stuff at last Sunday's Oscar show - Christopher Walken looking like a cadaver, Sophia Loren looking like a piece of plastic - but the cutest thing, of course, was the presence of those little urchins from —  NOW Magazine
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin cadāver, from cadere, to fall, die; see kad- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cadavre = Spanish Portuguese cadaver = Italian cadavere, cadavero, from Latin cadaver, a corpse, from cadere, fall. Cf. Greek πτῶμα, a corpse, from πίπτειν, fall.
 

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