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Usage examples of cadaver.

Dissections of cadavers were restricted or outlawed, so those who practised medicine were prevented from acquiring first-hand knowledge of the human body.

The cadaver is shown from the waist up, so I cannot say whether Barbet dressed him Jesus-style in swaddling undergarments, but I can say that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the monologuist Spalding Gray.

Pierre Barbet saw nothing strange or wrong in using cadavers meant for the teaching of anatomy as subjects in a simulated crucifixion to prove to doubters that the miraculous Shroud of Turin was for real.

A great deal of embalming unguent had been poured over the swathed cadaver, and this gluey stuff had hardened, turned black, and cemented the cerements to the body.

The dynast was fair-minded and would not hold his minister responsible for the inadequacies of the cadavers.

When the cadaver had done so and withdrawn, the dynast lifted his cup, prepared to enjoy the liquor.

The dynast made an abrupt gesture, and the cadaver lowered the weapon, brought it down butt end against the cavern floor, and resumed standing at attention.

All of them concerned a drug scandal involving a now defunct research facility in Enwood, Pennsylvania, from which a staggering quantity of endocri-nal procaine, extracted from human cadavers, was found missing.

He remained motionless for what seemed several minutes, leaning over the skeletonized cadaver.

Callicrate, amore mei et timore regine affecto, nos per magicam abduxit per vias horribiles ubi est puteus ille profundus, cujus juxta aditum jacebat senioris philosophi cadaver, et advenientibus monstravit flammam Vite erectam, instar columne voluntantis, voces emittentem quasi tonitrus: tunc per ignem impetu nocivo expers transiit et jam ipsa sese formosior visa est.

Even the famously neutral Swiss sanctioned a series of military wound ballistics studies on cadavers in the late 1800s.

Australia, as in other Commonwealth nations, ballistics and blast testing on human cadavers is not allowed.

But when the small and medium-sized eels were in the sack and the longshoreman, whose cap had fallen off in the course of his work, began to squeeze thicker, dark-colored eels out of the cadaver.

The stench of uncollected rotting bodies mingled with the sickly smell of burning cadavers to produce a thick miasma, hanging over Constantinople like a constant fog.

Ma il mattino vedendo che lo stabilimento altro non conteneva che cadaveri venne loro il dubbio della sotterranea fuga.