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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cadaveric en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈdavəɹɪk/ (US)
  • /kəˈdavəɹɪk/ (UK)
  • /kadəˈvɛɹɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

From French cadavérique.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to a corpse.
    • Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens. 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:
  2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
    • He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […] 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most cadaveric Degree=Sup lexicographic
more cadaveric Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

cadaverically · cadaveric alkaloid · cadaveric spasm · noncadaveric

Translations (9)

rgn cadavëric (pertaining to a corpse) · lt lavoniškas (pertaining to a corpse) · el πτωματικός (pertaining to a corpse) · ca cadavèric (pertaining to a corpse) · fi ruumis- (pertaining to a corpse) · it cadaverico (pertaining to a corpse) · pl trupi (pertaining to a corpse) · ro cadaveric (pertaining to a corpse) · fr cadavérique (pertaining to a corpse)