ca·dav·er

(kə-dăv′ər)

A dead body, especially one intended for dissection.

[Middle English, from Latin cadāver, from cadere, to fall, die; see kad- in Indo-European roots.]

ca·dav′er·ic (-ər-ĭk) adj.

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cadaver

(kəˈdeɪvə; -ˈdɑːv-)

1. (Medicine) med a corpse

2. (Anatomy) med a corpse

[C16: from Latin, from cadere to fall]

caˈdaveric adj

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ca•dav•er

(kəˈdæv ər)

n.

a dead body, esp. a human body to be dissected; corpse.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: corpse; akin to cadere to fall, perish (see decay, chance)]

ca•dav′er•ic, adj.

syn: See body.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cadaver - the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

corpse, remains, stiff, clay

dead body, body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake"

cremains - the remains of a dead body after cremation

cadaver

noun

The physical frame of a dead person or animal:

body, carcass, corpse, remains.

Slang: stiff.

Translations

cadàver

dög

lavonasnegyvėlis

cadavru

mŕtvola

kadaver

cadaver

[kəˈdeɪvəʳ] N (esp US) → cadáver m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cadaver

[kəˈdævə^r] n (= corpse) → cadavre m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cadaver

n → Kadaver m; (of humans) → Leiche f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cadaver

[kəˈdeɪvəʳ] n (Med) → cadavere m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ca·dav·er

n. cadáver.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

cadaver

n cadáver m

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Cadaver use for anatomy teaching purposes and dissection gives students a wide and three-dimensional vision of anatomical structures, allowing them to observe real variability in the human body.

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Cadaver dissection is a norm used worldwide which enables surgeons to learn and practice the procedure on the cadaver before treating actual patients", said Dr Deshpande V Rajakumar.

Fortis Hospital Bengaluru to conduct third live surgical workshop

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"We are just waiting for the result of the DNA test that will definitely tell us that the cadaver that we recovered was that of Abu Dar," Brawner said during a visit to the Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City.

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The cadaver was called up on the Anatomage, a 6-foot long flat computer screen that resembles an operating table and is housed in the Flicker Virtual Cadaver Lab at Moravian College's Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Center for Health Sciences.

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The team then moved on to the cadaver lab where medics were introduced to their first patients.

Rutgers RWJ Medical School, US National Guard partner for training

The obtained articles were researched in terms of the problems that medical faculty students lived with during cadaver lessons.

PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE REACTIONS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TO HUMAN CADAVERS AND ETHICS/Publicaciones relacionadas con las reacciones de los estudiantes medicos hacia cadaveres humanos y etica/Publicacoes relacionadas com as reacoes dos estudantes de medicina a cadaveres humanos e etica

The Organizers here on Saturday said there is urgent need to promote culture of cadaver or deceased organ donation to avert sizable number of deaths, many comprising those of children and youth or those in their productive age groups.

SIUT to organize walk 'Help Save Human Lives' around Mazar-e-Quaid