cadaver

UK/kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/US/kəˈdævɚ/

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Other forms: cadavers

A cadaver is a dead body, especially one used for study. A cadaver lab, dissect a cadaver, donated as a cadaver.

The word belongs to medicine and forensics, where body would be too plain and corpse too charged. Medical students still learn anatomy this way, and the bodies are donated. The Latin cadere means to fall, so a cadaver is one who has fallen.

Definitions of cadaver

1nouncadaverA dead body, especially one used for study.C1
“The forensic team examined the cadaver to find out how the man had died.”

cadaver is a dead body.

Where it comes from

Latin cadaver means a dead body, probably from cadere, to fall. Cascade and decay come from the same falling.

Proto-Indo-European
*ḱh₂d-
Latin
cadāver
Middle English
cadaver
English, today
cadaver

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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cadaver in the wild

Roe and John Aberth, cadaver monuments are often interpreted as a form of memento mori or adaption of the motif of "The Three Living and the Three Dead".
Cadaver monument
A male and a female cadaver were cut into thin slices, which were then photographed and digitized.
Visible Human Project
There are currently efforts to repeat this project with higher resolution images but only with parts of the body instead of a cadaver.
Visible Human Project
A cadaver, often known as a corpse, is a dead human body.
Cadaver
Students in medical school study and dissect cadavers as a part of their education.
Cadaver

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