cadaver

noun
/kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/UK/kəˈdævɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

  1. derived from cadāver
  2. inherited from cadaver

Definitions

  1. A dead body

    A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

    • He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.
    • “Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cadaver. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA