Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cadaveric"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cadaveric \Ca*dav"er*ic\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
--Dunglison.

{Cadaveric alkaloid}, an alkaloid generated by the processes
of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by
some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by
the bodies. See {Ptomaine}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cadaveric
adj : of or relating to a cadaver

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