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- noun Plural form of
resurrectionist .
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"resurrectionists" - grave robbers who dig up freshly interred cadavers and sell them to researchers.
The Seattle Times 2009
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a history of the role of cadavers played in British medicine, both before and after the 1832 law that greatly diminished medical schools 'reliance on "resurrectionists" -- professional grave robbers.
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"resurrectionists" - grave robbers who dig up freshly interred cadavers and sell them to researchers.
The Seattle Times 2009
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"resurrectionists" - grave robbers who dig up freshly interred cadavers and sell them to researchers.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Last week's chilling discovery that bodies within Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois were routinely being dug up and moved so that the burial plots could be sold again offers an opportunity to remind Americans that it was only two hundred years ago that "resurrectionists" would routinely raid cemeteries in order to provide cadavers for dissection classes in medical schools.
Kate Kelly: Medical Knowledge Used to Depend on Grave Robbing 2009
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But that didn't stop the ever-growing need for bodies: over the next three hundred years an entire industry evolved from the early endeavors of men like Platter who were subcontracted from medical students to professional grave robbers known as "resurrectionists," thieves that plundered graveyards specifically for medical schools.
Lapham's Quarterly: 1784: When Universal Health Care Was as Simple as Donating Your Body to Science 2009
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"resurrectionists," thieves that plundered graveyards specifically for medical schools.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lapham's Quarterly 2009
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"resurrectionists," thieves that plundered graveyards specifically for medical schools.
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Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men – the resurrectionists – whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.
Timur Bekmambetov to Direct Casebook of Victor Frankenstein? | /Film 2010
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If these methods did not provide enough cadavers to fill local needs, then resurrectionists paid off public officials or burial ground employees so that they could gain access to potters 'fields and other cemeteries.
Kate Kelly: Medical Knowledge Used to Depend on Grave Robbing 2009
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