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Examples of cadaver in a Sentence
medical students who train by using cadavers
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Law enforcement efforts to find Jaylen included searching various locations, such as homes and fields, and involved the use of cadaver dogs, different technologies and coordinated grid searches in and outside of Buffalo, according to Gramaglia.
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Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
Police seized his vehicle and, according to a search warrant, cadaver dogs alerted to a scent in the vehicle and on the shovel.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
In 2022, the Nome Police Department conducted a search using cadaver dogs.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Related article New blood test that screens for Alzheimer’s may be a step closer to reality, study suggests
All five adults had growth hormone deficiency as children and received pituitary growth hormones prepared in a specific way from cadavers.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Two cadaver dogs went to the scene, but there was no evidence that anyone was inside.
—Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Detectives from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office and cadaver dogs had been searching the pond on private property since Dec. 16, when Donnie Erwin’s Hyundai Elantra was found submerged.
—Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
The growth-hormone deficient individuals, then children, received donor hormone from cadavers whose brains apparently contained infectious, misfolded proteins that lead to often-fatal neurodegenerative disease.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 1 Feb. 2024
The software also achieved a 90% success rate when interpreting scans taken of cadavers with sponges placed inside them.
—Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
Police seized his vehicle and, according to a search warrant, cadaver dogs alerted to a scent in the vehicle and on the shovel.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
In 2022, the Nome Police Department conducted a search using cadaver dogs.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Related article New blood test that screens for Alzheimer’s may be a step closer to reality, study suggests
All five adults had growth hormone deficiency as children and received pituitary growth hormones prepared in a specific way from cadavers.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
Two cadaver dogs went to the scene, but there was no evidence that anyone was inside.
—Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
Detectives from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office and cadaver dogs had been searching the pond on private property since Dec. 16, when Donnie Erwin’s Hyundai Elantra was found submerged.
—Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2024
The growth-hormone deficient individuals, then children, received donor hormone from cadavers whose brains apparently contained infectious, misfolded proteins that lead to often-fatal neurodegenerative disease.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 1 Feb. 2024
The software also achieved a 90% success rate when interpreting scans taken of cadavers with sponges placed inside them.
—Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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Copy CitationKids Definition
cadaver
noun
ca·dav·er
kə-ˈdav-ər 
: a dead body especially of a person : corpse
Medical Definition
cadaver
noun
ca·dav·er
kə-ˈdav-ər
plural cadavers also cadavera
-ə-rə
: a dead body
specifically
: one intended for use in medical education or research
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