All 9 Uses of
cadaver
in
The Bell Jar
- It was like the first time I saw a cadaver.†
Chpt 1
- For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head-or what there was left of it-floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and behind the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.†
Chpt 1
- For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head-or what there was left of it-floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and behind the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.†
Chpt 1
- Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, "So are the cadavers you cut up.†
Chpt 5
- I started out by dressing in a white coat and sitting on a tall stool in a room with four cadavers, while Buddy and his friends cut them up.†
Chpt 6
- These cadavers were so unhuman-looking they didn't bother me a bit.
Chpt 6 *cadavers = dead bodies of human beings -- especially in reference to medical study
- The only time I jumped was when I leaned my elbow on Buddy's cadaver's stomach to watch him dissect a lung.†
Chpt 6
- After a minute or two I felt this burning sensation in my elbow and it occurred to me the cadaver might just be half alive since it was still warm, so I leapt off my stool with a small exclamation.†
Chpt 6
- I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(cadaver) the dead body of a human being -- especially one used for medical studyeditor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Typically cadaver references a body used for medical reasons such as medical education or research. Otherwise a dead body is more likely to be referenced by the word corpse or body.