Corpse

Corpse

A corpse, also called a cadaver in medical literary and legal usage or when intended for dissection, is a dead human body.

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Famous quotes containing the word corpse:

    There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one—you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    Buzzards float upon the sky
    Shrilling a metaphysic cry,
    Machines hum, midgets play,
    Another corpse is hauled away
    Hauled away
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)