cadavers

plural of cadaver
as in corpses
a dead body medical students who train by using cadavers

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Noun
  • The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Outside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, white plastic body bags with corpses were laid out on the street.
    Emily Rose, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The years slowly moved away from us, its silence uncanny, but the smell of carcasses was unfathomable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Once, a meat processor asked about plugs to keep entrails from sheep carcasses from spilling onto production lines.
    Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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