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
Despite its elaborate conceit, “Godfall” turns out to be a solid police-procedural rooted in a sensitive depiction of small-town life turned upside-down by a cosmic cadaver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
After the finding, additional search and rescue teams were called to the area, as well as four cadaver dogs, but officials said no further evidence was located.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Several generations may occur in the insect's cadaver until the juvenile worms emerge into the environment to infect other insects with bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
And if you could make a study of the dead, Stevens thought from time to time, you could make a study of the living, and make them testify as no cadaver could.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
Some of their customers are universities, which use cadavers to train doctors.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
One of the worst cases of this testicular infection appeared in a morgue attendant who had handled Marburg-infected bodies and who himself came down with Marburg, having caught it from the cadavers.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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