cadaver
kuh da ver
- n the dead body of a human being
the cadaver was intended for dissection
- A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn as many as three pints from a grown man; the Russians say they get as many as eight pints.
- Cornell's Staiano-Coico was part of the first research team to report success with grafts grown in culture from bits of cadaver skin, and describes them as "biological Band-Aids to .
- Unlike the patient's own skin, cadaver skin is soon rejected by the immune system, which recognizes it as foreign.