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  • He says he found it comforting to write about his experiences, from a reflection on the person that once inhabited the cadaver's body to a poem on his feelings of dismay and horror after caring for an infant who had been burned by boiling water.

    Poetry, Painting to Earn an M.D. Laura Landro 2011

  • Favorite moments: a tie between Eliot and Hardison arguing over who has to inject a cadaver's brain with hot wax and Parker's freakout over Nate giving out a $100,000 check.

    LEVERAGE: "The Snow Job" Open thread Rogers 2009

  • Chris Clark had had a cadaver's palette put into his face after a nasty puck to the mouth left him in need of a rebuild.

    Archive 2008-04-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • ROBERTS: Surgeons used a cadaver's face for the transplant.

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2008 2008

  • Surgeons used a cadaver's face for the transplant.

    CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2008 2008

  • When I was in First Year Med, I didn't know if I was cutting into a white male cadaver's body, or a black male cadaver's body.

    "Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • He was forced into retirement a year ago when he had extensive back surgery, requiring doctors to take a cadaver's leg bone, shape it into a disk and insert it into his back.

    USATODAY.com - Spelling r-e-l-i-e-f 2002

  • He bent closer and the cadaver's smell - filled his nose and mouth.

    The Concrete Blonde Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994

  • He bent closer and the cadaver's smell - filled his nose and mouth.

    The Concrete Blond Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994

  • Another would-be technical breakthrough was the Bell "phonautograph" of 1874, actually made out of a human cadaver's ear.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

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