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cadaver

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A dead human body; a corpse.

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Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility. Robert Charles Wilson

To make myself visible as I am now, when I sense that the cadaver that I occupy is almost worn out or that the organs are no longer working very well, I breathe myself into a young body that has just died. Cyrano de Bergerac

Capitalism is dying and its extremities are already decomposing. The blotches upon the surface show that the blood no longer circulates. The time is near when the cadaver will have to be removed and the atmosphere purified. Eugene V. Debs

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place. Mary Roach

the cadaver was intended for dissection Source: Internet

the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse Source: Internet

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