Crossword clues for cadaver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cadaver \Ca*da"ver\ (k[.a]*d[a^]"v[~e]r; k[.a]*d[=a]"v[~e]r), n. A dead human body; a corpse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A cadaver is a dead human body.
Cadaver may also refer to:
- Cadaver tomb, tomb featuring an effigy in the form of a decomposing body
- Cadaver (video game), a video game
- cadaver (WebDAV client) A command-line WebDAV client for Unix.
- Cadaver (band), a Norwegian death metal band
- Cadaver (Demonata), a demon in The Demonata
- The Cut (film), a 2007 South Korean horror film also known as Cadaver
- Slang for a "dead" B.E.A.M robot
- Cadaver Society, a secret society at Washington and Lee University
Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde and Fredrikstad, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member. For their final album, they fell back to using their original band name Cadaver and ended their activities in 2004, with their final live show in 2005.
Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS and Acorn Archimedes. In the game the player controls Karadoc the dwarf.
Cadaver is a demon who appears in Darren Shan's The Demonata series. He has appeared in Demon Thief, Death's Shadow, and Slawter.
Cadaver is the demon hired by Lord Loss to kidnap Art (Artery in disguise) and bring Kernel Fleck into the Demonata's universe. During his retrieval of Art, Cadaver slaughters a large number of teachers and schoolchildren.
He is described as having a stumpy leathery body, four long arms with hairy fingers, and 2 legs, a dark green wolfish head, no mouth (until later in Demon Thief) and long drooping ears.
Cadaver also was the demon that killed Emmet Eijit in Slawter.
Cadaver is sacrificed on an ocean liner to open a portal for the Shadow.
Category:Characters in The Demonata Category:Fictional demons and devils
A cadaver, also called corpse (singular) in medical, literary, and legal usage, or when intended for dissection, is a deceased body.
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.