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Recent Examples of cadavers
Currently, students practicing complex surgeries rely on cadavers, which are expensive, difficult to source, and ethically complex.
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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
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
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
Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
The unclaimed poor To meet the medical professon’s growing demand for cadavers, Massachusetts enacted the first anatomy law.
—Susan E. Lederer, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadavers
Noun
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From its gridded canopy, in April 1945, the corpses of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were hung upside down and then mutilated by a frenzied crowd.—
Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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When the mouths of wolves fall open, a script of corpses march.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The conservancy's plan to shoot the deer from the air, using helicopters, was shut down in 2024 after residents voiced concerns of bullets raining down and rotting deer carcasses that would be left behind.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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The agency said necropsies were completed and the horse carcasses were buried.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Cadavers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadavers. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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