cadaver

Etymology

Recorded since c.1500, borrowed from Latin cadāver.

noun

  1. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
    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. 2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98

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