Cadaveric \Ca*dav"er*ic\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
--Dunglison.
Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes
of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by
some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by
the bodies. See Ptomaine.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |