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Recent Examples of cadavers
Jobs more closely tied to Neuralink’s brain interfaces include an operating room specialist and a neurosurgeon resident to carry out experimental brain-computer interface procedures using human cadavers or large animal subjects.
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Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
After examining the remains, officials with the university state the bodies were possibly cadavers used in classes in the early 1900s.
—Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 26 Feb. 2026
Currently, students practicing complex surgeries rely on cadavers, which are expensive, difficult to source, and ethically complex.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
More than 300 students would pack this theater to watch professors dissect human cadavers – mostly bodies of criminals from another town.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
The dummies' design is informed by data taken from living people's bodies, as well as from cadavers put through their own crash tests — and the new female dummy design, crucially, is informed by data from female bodies.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Donated human fat, to be exact, which has been procured from cadavers and meticulously processed into a thick injectable called Alloclae.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 19 Nov. 2025
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
After examining the remains, officials with the university state the bodies were possibly cadavers used in classes in the early 1900s.
—Josh Kelly, Oklahoman, 26 Feb. 2026
Currently, students practicing complex surgeries rely on cadavers, which are expensive, difficult to source, and ethically complex.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
More than 300 students would pack this theater to watch professors dissect human cadavers – mostly bodies of criminals from another town.
—Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
The dummies' design is informed by data taken from living people's bodies, as well as from cadavers put through their own crash tests — and the new female dummy design, crucially, is informed by data from female bodies.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
Donated human fat, to be exact, which has been procured from cadavers and meticulously processed into a thick injectable called Alloclae.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 19 Nov. 2025
Other than Hogan and Worden, Gein’s subjects were all exhumed cadavers, though he is suspected to have been involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
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And within that galaxy, not only will stars live-and-die, and not only will star-formation cease once all of the gas has been consumed, but gravitational interactions will eject most of those stellar corpses, as well as the planet remnants that orbit them.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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Across Arizona’s Sky Islands, home to many black bears, valleys and hillslopes are dotted with the rusty corpses of Emory oak, alligator juniper and manzanitas.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The carcasses were properly disinfected, photographed and discarded to prevent any further use, Livestock Development Department Director-General Somchuan Rattanamangklanan said at the news conference.—
Wasamon Audjarint,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Jamieson expects other Antarctic sharks may live at similar depths, feeding on carcasses of whales, giant squids and other marine animals that sink to the seafloor.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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