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:
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:28.
“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“Now Lady Maisry is gone home,
Made him a winding sheet,
And at the back of merry Lincoln
The dead corpse did her meet.
And all the bells of merry Lincoln,
Without men’s hands were rung,”
—Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 61–66)