cadaver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the dead body of a human being

   The cadaver was intended for dissection.

Simplified etymology

Cadaver entered English in late Middle English and ultimately comes from the Latin family of cadere ‘fall’. Its underlying image is that of a dead person as someone who has ‘fallen’.

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

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