cadaver /kəˈdɑːvə 
, kəˈdeɪvə / ▸ noun Medicine or literary a corpse: the full-day event promised a forensic autopsy and dissection of a human cadaver.
– DERIVATIVES cadaveric /kəˈdav(ə)rɪk / adjective – ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin, from cadere ‘to fall’.
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