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Cadaver definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CADAVER, n. A corpse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, from cadere to fall Date: circa 1500 a dead body; especially one intended for dissection • cadaveric adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. esp. Med. a corpse. Derivatives: cadaveric adj. Etymology: ME f. L f. cadere fall

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cadaver Ca*da"ver, n. [L., fr cadere to fall.] A dead human body; a corpse.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cadavers) A cadaver is a dead body. (FORMAL) = corpse N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Corpse, dead body, body, remains, subject (for dissection).

Moby Thesaurus

ashes, body, bones, carcass, carrion, clay, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, food for worms, late lamented, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, organic remains, relics, reliquiae, remains, skeleton, stiff, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one