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the dead body of a human being — especially one used for medical study- A cadaver is assigned to each medical student.
cadaver = dead human body
- Both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo studied cadavers to advance their understanding of the human form.
- 1422: Attacking forces launch decaying cadavers over castle walls in Bohemia.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Yet Michelangelo had his secret cadavers, and so too must I. An artist of a different sort, risk and sacrifice....Madeleine Roux -- Asylum
- In the photograph he looked already a cadaver.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Physically, he would be considered a hunk at the university or even as a cadaver in an autopsy room, which was preferable to her.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- The skin on his face was shrunken like a cadaver's.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- No one knows where they get the cadavers; or no one knows for certain.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- And you expect me to use my hearse to cart the cadaver?Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- One of the cadavers began to stir.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- You know what cadaver means?Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
- As to the dead, I would withhold no decency of burning; a man should spare no pains to see cadavers given as soon, as may be after death to purifying flame.Homer -- The Iliad
- Between meals, Don Jose sketched rather than dissected the cadavers and caught up on his sleep on a bench below a Gauguin and alongside several Van Goghs in the Prado.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- The acts themselves were unclear—for example, a woman bent over a man for some undetermined purpose, as if she were about to do some violence on an utterly helpless cadaver.John Irving -- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Abruptly he was gripped by the irrational conviction that the cadavers surrounding him were those of his wife and children; all of them were Michelle and the girls, as though Joe had wandered into a scene in a science fiction movie about clones.Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- A man described by authorities as one evolutionary step above a banana slug has recently admitted to having been locked in the Sacajawea Junior High biology lab over a long weekend nearly sixteen years ago when he fell asleep and was mistaken as a cadaver.Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
- These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
- The stench of burned cadaver and charred remains hung heavy in the air.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- You might've thought we'd just finished a nice picnic rather than a battle with plague-ridden cadavers.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- The karpos's fanged mouth unhinged, expanding to an unbelievable circumference, then closed around the cadaver's head, and chomped it off in one bite.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
cadavers = dead bodies of human beings
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadaver = dead human body
cadaver = dead human body
cadaver = dead human body
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadaver = dead human body
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadaver = word for: the dead body of a human being
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadaver = dead human body
cadavers = bodies
cadaver = dead human body
cadavers = dead bodies of human beings — especially in reference to medical study
cadaver = dead bodies
cadavers = dead human bodies
cadaver = dead human body
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