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- It was yellow, and parts of it had liquefied—it looked like the liver of a cadaver.†
p. 28.5 *
- One of the worst cases of this testicular infection appeared in a morgue attendant who had handled Marburg-infected bodies and who himself came down with Marburg, having caught it from the cadavers.†
p. 38.9cadavers = dead bodies of human beings -- especially in reference to medical study
- Many of the people in Africa who came down with Ebola had handled Ebola-infected cadavers.†
p. 66.7
- After death, the cadaver suddenly deteriorates: the internal organs, having been dead or partially dead for days, have already begun to dissolve, and a sort of shock-related meltdown occurs.†
p. 108.9
- The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.†
p. 109.2
- They wrapped the cadavers of the nuns and Nurse Mayinga in sheets soaked in chemicals, then double-bagged the mummies in plastic and put each one in an airtight coffin with a screw-down lid, and held the funeral services at the hospital, under the watch of doctors.†
p. 129.4cadavers = dead bodies of human beings -- especially in reference to medical study
- It included several military body bags, for holding human cadavers, and the members of his team had a serious discussion among themselves about how to handle their own remains if one of them died of Marburg.†
p. 144.2
Definitions:
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(cadaver) the dead body of a human being -- especially one used for medical studySynonym 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)