Cadaver

Cadaver

A cadaver or corpse is a <a href="/en/Death" title="Death" class="wl">dead</a> <a href="/en/Human_body" title="Human body" class="wl">human body</a>. Cadavers are used by <a href="/en/Medical_students" title="Medical students" class="mw-redirect wl">medical students</a>, <a href="/en/Physicians" title="Physicians" class="mw-redirect wl">physicians</a> and other scientists to study <a href="/en/Anatomy" title="Anatomy" class="wl">anatomy</a>, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide <a href="/en/Tissue_(biology)" title="Tissue (biology)" class="wl">tissue</a> to repair a defect in a living human being. Students in medical school study and dissect cadavers as a part of their education. Others who study cadavers include archaeologists and arts students.<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a>

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The term cadaver is used in courts of law (and, to a lesser extent, also by media outlets such as newspapers) to refer to a dead body, as well as by recovery teams searching for bodies in natural disasters. The word comes from the <a href="/en/Latin" title="Latin" class="wl">Latin</a> word cadere ("to fall"). Related terms include cadaverous (resembling a cadaver) and <a href="/en/Cadaveric_spasm" title="Cadaveric spasm" class="wl">cadaveric spasm</a> (a muscle spasm causing a dead body to twitch or jerk). A cadaver graft (also called “postmortem graft”) is the grafting of tissue from a dead body onto a living human to repair a defect or disfigurement. Cadavers can be observed for their stages of decomposition, helping to determine how long a body has been dead.<a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;">[2]</a>

Cadavers have been used in art to depict the human body in paintings and drawings more accurately.<a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;">[3]</a>

A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body. Cadavers are used by medical students, physicians and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being. Students in medical school study and dissect cadavers as a part of their education. Others who study cadavers include archaeologists and arts students. The term cadaver is used in courts of law to refer to a dead body, as well as by recovery teams searching for bodies in natural disasters. The word comes from the Latin word cadere . Related terms include cadaverous and cadaveric spasm . A cadaver graft is the grafting of tissue from a dead body onto a living human to repair a defect or disfigurement. Cadavers can be observed for their stages of decomposition, helping to determine how long a body has been dead. Cadavers have been used in art to depict the human body in paintings and drawings more accurately. 