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the dead body of a human being — especially one used for medical study

cadaver = dead human body

Both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo studied cadavers to advance their understanding of the human form.

cadavers = dead bodies of human beings

1422: Attacking forces launch decaying cadavers over castle walls in Bohemia.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil

cadavers = dead human bodies

Yet Michelangelo had his secret cadavers, and so too must I. An artist of a different sort, risk and sacrifice....
Madeleine Roux -- Asylum

cadavers = dead human bodies

In the photograph he looked already a cadaver.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

cadaver = dead human body

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

cadaver = dead human body

The skin on his face was shrunken like a cadaver's.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

cadaver = dead human body

No one knows where they get the cadavers; or no one knows for certain.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

cadavers = dead human bodies

And you expect me to use my hearse to cart the cadaver?
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

cadaver = dead human body

cadavers = dead human bodies

cadaver = word for: the dead body of a human being

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

cadavers = dead human bodies

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

cadavers = dead human bodies

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

cadaver = dead human body

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

cadavers = bodies

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

cadaver = dead human body

These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

cadavers = dead bodies of human beings — especially in reference to medical study

The stench of burned cadaver and charred remains hung heavy in the air.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

cadaver = dead bodies

You might've thought we'd just finished a nice picnic rather than a battle with plague-ridden cadavers.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle

cadavers = dead human bodies

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

cadaver = dead human body

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