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Definition of cadaver in English: cadavernoun kəˈdɑːvəkəˈdeɪvəkəˈdævər Medicine literary A corpse. 〔医〕〈诗/文〉尸体 Example sentencesExamples - Five of the eight matched pairs were from male cadavers and three were from female cadavers.
- When as a medical student you dissected a cadaver, were there things said and done that left you deeply worried about the respect that you might be shown when you are dead?
- Also examined is the use of donated ova from aborted fetuses and cadavers.
- The forms should specifically use the term dissect and specify the use of the cadavers for medical education and research purposes.
- In the second study, the surgeons performed a variety of surgical procedures on a human cadaver.
Synonyms dead body, body, carcass, skeleton corpse, body, dead body, remains, carcass
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin, from cadere 'to fall'. accident from Late Middle English: An accident was originally ‘an event, something that happens’, not necessarily a mishap. It came into English via Old French, ultimately from Latin cadere, meaning ‘to fall’, which also gave us words such as cadaver (Late Middle English) ‘someone fallen’, chance, decay (Late Middle English) ‘fall away’, incident (Late Middle English) ‘fall upon’ so ‘happen’; and occasion (Late Middle English). The idea of an event ‘falling’ remains in the English word befall (Old English). Later the meaning of accident evolved into ‘something that happens by chance’, as in the phrase a happy accident. By the 17th century the modern meaning had become established in the language. The full form of the proverb accidents will happen, which dates from the early 19th century, is accidents will happen in the best-regulated families. According to Mr Micawber in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (1850): ‘Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by…the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they must be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.’ See also adventure
Definition of cadaver in US English: cadavernounkəˈdavərkəˈdævər Medicine literary A corpse. 〔医〕〈诗/文〉尸体 Example sentencesExamples - The forms should specifically use the term dissect and specify the use of the cadavers for medical education and research purposes.
- When as a medical student you dissected a cadaver, were there things said and done that left you deeply worried about the respect that you might be shown when you are dead?
- Five of the eight matched pairs were from male cadavers and three were from female cadavers.
- Also examined is the use of donated ova from aborted fetuses and cadavers.
- In the second study, the surgeons performed a variety of surgical procedures on a human cadaver.
Synonyms dead body, body, carcass, skeleton corpse, body, dead body, remains, carcass
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin, from cadere ‘to fall’. |