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:

    “Light
    Flashed from his matted head and marble feet,
    He grappled at the net
    With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs:
    The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites,”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “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)

    ““That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
    “Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
    “Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
    “O keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,
    “Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)