cadaver

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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/kəˈdæv.ə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /kəˈdɑːv.ə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /kəˈdeɪ.və(ɹ)/ (UK) · /kəˈdævɚ/ (US)

Definition of cadaver

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (literary)A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.
    “He and his best friend saw a cadaver and ran screaming.”
    ““Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.””

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Etymology

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

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