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How to use cadaver in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Cadaver means a dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected. Example: “He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.”

Examples of cadaver by meaning

nounA 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.2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98

More sentences with cadaver

  • AV plugs are used to seal cadaver orifices to prevent embalming fluid spillage.From the entry av
  • The organless cadaver was disposed of.From the entry organless
  • Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.2017, David Lesondak, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, Handspring Publishing, page 3, Figure 1.1. From the entry fascia
  • Of course, once trained, a cadaver dog doesn't disturb the remains at the site.2004, Angela Eaton Snovak, Guide to Search and Rescue Dogs, page 160. From the entry cadaver dog
  • Before tearing up the property with machinery, the police conducted a screening at the site with specialised cadaver dogs.2026 July 27, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Disappearance of Kayla Berg and the Condemned House Where Her Trail Ended”, in Skip Boring, archived…. From the entry decomposition
  • Frustratingly for the society’s research members, the fairy cadaver must have somehow magically transformed into papier-mâché during transit.2014, Richard Littler, Discovering Scarfolk: For Tourists & Other Trespassers, Ebury Press, →ISBN. From the entry gnomicide
  • Enter resomation, an alternative to cremation for the eco-conscious cadaver.2009, Ruth Davis Konigsberg, “The 9th annual year in ideas”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry resomation
  • Based on palpatory findings, tissue samples were taken from myogelotic areas of 11 unfixed human cadavers (6 female, 5 male).1999 July 1, A. Windisch, A. Reitinger, H. Traxler, H. Radner, C. Neumayer, W. Feigl, W. Firbas, “Morphology and Histochemistry of…. From the entry pathologically
  • So many faces Clive had never seen by daylight, and looking terrible, like cadavers jerked upright to welcome the newly dead.1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, published 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10. From the entry din
  • This lined up nicely with the investigators’ running theory, so they deployed cadaver dog units and forensic teams to excavate the Union City border site.2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip…. From the entry line up
  • When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting.2012, Brian Norman, Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature, JHU Press, →ISBN. From the entry corpsehood
  • At the front of the classroom the cadaver of a singer is laid out on a workbench cluttered with Bunsen burners, rizlas, vinyl.2005, Matthew Fuller, Media ecologies: materialist energies in art and technoculture. From the entry rizla
  • Although such indurative areas continue to be palpable even on the cadaver, few studies concerning the morphological substrate of these areas have been undertaken.1999 July 1, A. Windisch, A. Reitinger, H. Traxler, H. Radner, C. Neumayer, W. Feigl, W. Firbas, “Morphology and Histochemistry of…. From the entry myogelosis
  • Now, my Grandmamma Mattie pulled the used-to-be Easter dress from the chifforobe and tossed it on the bed where my mama lay, still as a cadaver.2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 163. From the entry chifforobe
  • The trooper climbed back on the rock and slid down to take the cadaver lowered to him by Bradly, who lumbered down to assist in carrying it.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 221. From the entry lumber
  • The morbid anatomy of over a hundred birds dead of intestinal coccidiosis and autopsied by us can be summarized as follows: The cadavera are very much emaciated and anemic.1913, American Veterinary Review, page 498. From the entry cadavera
  • The transplant procedure involves obtaining the graft to be transplanted (from a cadaver or living donor), backbench work (special preparation of the graft before transplantation), and transplantation into the recipient.2014, Carol J. Buck, Step-by-Step Medical Coding, →ISBN, page 702. From the entry backbench

Meaning of cadaver

  1. noun A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

Full definition of cadaver

Questions about cadaver in a sentence

How do you use cadaver in a sentence?
Cadaver is used as a noun. For example: “He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.”
What is a short sentence with cadaver?
“The organless cadaver was disposed of.”
What does cadaver mean?
Cadaver means a dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.

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