cadaver
Syllables: ca·dav·erUK/kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)//kəˈdævɚ/
cadaver noun: a dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
Noun
cadaver (plural cadavers or cadavera)
- A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
- He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.
- “Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98
cadaver meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
cadaver in Tamil
- a dead body
- பிணம் piṇam
cadaver in Urdu
- لاش, نعش
cadaver in Bengali
- a dead body
- বিশীর্ণ দেহ biśirno deho
cadaver in Malayalam
- corpse, (dead) body, remains
- ശവം, ചടയം, ശവശരീരം, ജഡം, ദേഹം, ഉടൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- cadaver in Kannada
- ಹೆಣ, ಮೃತಶರೀರ, ಕಳೇಬರ
- cadaver in Tagalog
- bangkay
- cadaver in Arabic
- جُثَّة juṯṯa
- cadaver in Indonesian
- kadaver
- cadaver in Thai
- อาจารย์ใหญ่ aa-jaan-yài
- cadaver in Myanmar
- ရုပ်ကလာပ် rupka.lap
Examples of cadaver in a sentence
- AV plugs are used to seal cadaver orifices to prevent embalming fluid spillage.
- The organless cadaver was disposed of.
- Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.
Synonyms of cadaver
Forms of cadaver
| plural | cadavers |
|---|---|
| plural | cadavera |
Origin of cadaver
From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.
Words formed from cadaver
Phrases with cadaver
Questions about cadaver
- What does cadaver mean?
- Cadaver means a dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
- What is cadaver in Tamil?
- Cadaver in Tamil is பிணம் (piṇam). See Cadaver meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cadaver?
- Cadaver is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cadaver?
- Cadaver is pronounced /kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cadaver?
- The plural of cadaver is cadavers.
Words near cadaver in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cadaver (page history and authors); cadaver (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cadaver (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cadaver (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-cadaver.ogg.
Cite this entry: “cadaver.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cadaver. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.