cadaver
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When the mummy was found in 1991, it was initially treated as a normal cadaver.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
A third group of six cadaver donors provided additional skin samples to strengthen the control group.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025
“They brought in two cadaver dogs looking to see if anyone was still trapped under the rubble, and the dogs cleared everything,” Hurd said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
He can also use a state-of-the-art cadaver lab, a rarity for undergraduates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
“You’re not like that other sort,” Cobb told him one night when they carried a cadaver through the back door.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Much of early topographical anatomy – the careful mapping of structures in relation to one another – depended on cadavers obtained through grave robbery.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
However, some of this research -- particularly one claiming to have found a plastic spoon's worth of microplastic in the brains of cadavers -- has recently come under stinging criticism from scientists.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Eventually, the discovery of formaldehyde and the use of embalming fluids reduced the demand for cadavers, as did the growing number of people donating their bodies to science.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
Like most medical schools, the University of California does not profit from its body-donation programme, and it has strict guidelines for how corpses - or cadavers, as they are known medically - should be handled.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
Mr. Huffer was waiting for us in the back room where he prepared all the cadavers.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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