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CADAVER

\kɐdˈavə], \kɐdˈavə], \k_ɐ_d_ˈa_v_ə]\

Definitions of CADAVER

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A dead human body; a corpse.
A dead body; a corpse.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A dead human body; a corpse.
A dead body; a corpse.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A dead body; a corpse.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

A dead body, usually a human body.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A dead body, usually a human body.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

The word has been supposed to come from cado, 'I fall;' and by some to be a contraction from caro data vermibus, 'flesh given to the worms.' [?]

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

A dead body or corpse.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

PI. cadavera. A dead body; corpse. [Lat]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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