cadavers
Anatomy lab subjects
Cadavers is the plural of cadaver, a dead human body.
The term is clinical and detached, used primarily in medical and scientific contexts: Medical students dissect cadavers in anatomy lab.
Cadaver appears in legal and forensic settings where corpse might sound too colloquial.
The adjective cadaverous describes someone gaunt and pale, as if resembling a corpse.
Medical examination after death
- dissectionAnatomical cutting and examination
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- pathologyStudy of disease processes
examination · tissue · preservation · medical school · gross anatomy · forensic · postmortem · identification
Location of an offense
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- homicideCausing another's death
identification · DNA · time of death · rigor mortis · lividity · entomology · toxicology · skeletal remains
Systematic fact-finding effort
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- body farmDecomposition research facility
- plastinationPolymer-based specimen preservation
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
specimen · consent · educational · training · histology · cellular · experimental · cryopreservation
autopsy
Medical examination after death
- dissectionAnatomical cutting and examination
- morgueCorpse holding facility
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
pathology · examination · tissue · preservation · medical school · gross anatomy · forensic · postmortem · identification · donation
crime scene
Location of an offense
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- investigationFormal examination of facts
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
homicide · identification · DNA · time of death · rigor mortis · lividity · entomology · toxicology · skeletal remains · ballistics
research
Systematic fact-finding effort
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- body farmDecomposition research facility
- plastinationPolymer-based specimen preservation
preservation · specimen · consent · educational · training · histology · cellular · experimental · cryopreservation · formaldehyde
funeral
Service honoring the dead
viewing · preparation · mortician · shroud · coffin · embalming · rites · ceremony · mourning · repatriation
- ancient surgeryamputation, trepanation, cauterization, bloodletting, cautery
- history of medical educationmed school, medical schools, anatomy, dissection, residency
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
- anatomybrain, heart, bones, liver, stomach
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- test subjectshuman subjects, lab rats, lab mice, guinea pigs, experimental group
cadaverspatients
Those receiving medical treatment
survivors · living organisms · the quick · living creatures · warm bodies
- cadaver dogDog trained to find corpses
- cadaver labFacility for studying bodies