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Webster 1913 Edition
Cadaveric
Ca-dav′er-ic
,Adj.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous;
as,
. cadaveric
rigidityDunglison.
Cadaveric alkaloid
, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See
Ptomaine
.Definition 2024
cadaveric
cadaveric
See also: cadavèric
English
Adjective
cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)
- Pertaining to a corpse.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 157:
- Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 157:
- Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
- 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society 2007, p. 21:
- He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks [...].
- 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society 2007, p. 21:
Derived terms
- cadaveric alkaloid - (ptomaine)
Translations
pertaining to a corpse
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