cadaver
Anatomy lab subject
A cadaver is a dead human body, especially one used for medical study or scientific examination.
The word is clinical and formal—doctors and medical students work on cadavers in anatomy labs, forensic investigators examine cadavers.
Outside technical contexts, corpse or body are more common: The medical school needs cadaver donations for its anatomy program.
Corpse holding facility
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- funeralService honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
casket · cremation · decomposition · shroud · undertaker · coffin · hearse · pallbearer
Medical examination after death
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- pathologyStudy of disease processes
- toxicologyScience of poisons
- investigationFormal examination of facts
morgue · decomposition · entomology · odontology · lividity · postmortem · examiner · coroner
morgue
Corpse holding facility
- embalmingPreserving dead bodies chemically
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- funeralService honoring the dead
burial · casket · cremation · decomposition · shroud · undertaker · coffin · hearse · pallbearer · interment
autopsy
Medical examination after death
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- pathologyStudy of disease processes
- toxicologyScience of poisons
investigation · morgue · decomposition · entomology · odontology · lividity · postmortem · examiner · coroner · identification
dissection
Anatomical cutting and examination
anatomical · skeleton · organs · tissue · musculature · arteries · veins · nerves · bones · ligaments
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- Zombieszombie, zombies, undead, walkers, walker
- animal remainsbones, bone, skeleton, carcass, carrion
- Gothic horrorghost story, haunted houses, Dracula, vampires, Frankenstein
- death carefuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin