MEANING
Relating to a corpse, especially its tissues or condition after death.
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- cadaveric tissue
- cadaveric rigidity
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The laboratory stored the cadaveric tissue in sealed containers.
The examiner documented the body’s cadaveric rigidity.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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