cadaveric

From French cadavérique.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kadəˈvɛɹɪk/, /kəˈdavəɹɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈdavəɹɪk/

cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)

1. Pertaining to a corpse.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

     Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.

2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
   • 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21:

     He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]

• cadaveric alkaloid
• cadaveric spasm

Borrowed from French cadavérique.

cadaveric m or n (feminine singular cadaverică, masculine plural cadaverici, feminine and neuter plural cadaverice)

1. cadaveric