cadaver
pronunciation
How to pronounce cadaver in British English:
UK [kəˈdævə(r)]
How to pronounce cadaver in American English:
US [kəˈdævɚ]
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- Noun:
- the dead body of a human being
Word Origin
- cadaver
- cadaver: [16] Cadaver literally means ‘something that has fallen over’. It is a derivative of the Latin verb cadere ‘fall’ (from which English gets a wide range of other words, from case to accident). Its application to ‘dead body’ arises from the metaphorical use of the Latin verb for ‘die’.=> accident, cadence, case
- cadaver (n.)
- c. 1500, from Latin cadaver "dead body (of men or animals)," probably from a perfective participle of cadere "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" (see case (n.1)). Compare Greek ptoma "dead body," literally "a fall" (see ptomaine); poetic English the fallen "those who died in battle."
Example
- 1. Today , the only option is to transplant an entire lung obtained from a cadaver .
- 2. The most important is temperature : the rate of chemical reactions in a cadaver doubles with each 10 degree celsius rise .
- 3. Sokol dropped plans to become a doctor after he fainted when he first saw a cadaver .
- 4. He mapped the natural lines of tension within skin by puncturing the skin on a cadaver with a circular tool and then measuring the shape of the resulting hole .
- 5. Shipping a full cadaver can bring in as much as $ 1000 , but if you divvy up a body into its component parts , you can make a fortune .