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The materials were collected from divergent sources in the cadaver, and the more perishable substances were analyzed immediately.
The human cadaver was never dissected, but a knowledge of anatomy was obtained from diagrams which were wholly hypothetical.
Dogs prowled about, sleek and contented, and usually sniffing only at the cadavers, for their appetites were already sated.
The cadavers are not sequestered in the tombs, but in niches in vaults underneath reached by a descending flight of stairs.
The cadaver had a beaver-cap ornamented with disks of copper containing the bones of the cranium, which had fallen apart.
The second one died as the first one did, and for an awful week we were unable to gain possession of the decomposing cadaver.
Preparing to slice the icy cadaver into four blocks for convenient grinding, the lab crew sharpened up on a less exalted cadaver.
It had been an open secret among his classmates that he had refused an offer to study human medicine because of his aversion to dissecting cadavers.
Physicians are less excited by cadavers, and what is more significant, a physician would know how to find the jugular vein with a pen-knife.
A convulsive shudder swept over the crowned cadaver at sight of the youth, and from the gaping wound the crimson blood welled afresh.
Then, after an interval of silence, prompted to speak by something he said, she yielded to the temptation to express herself: "Only cadavers are dissected."
A ghastly, leering cadaver in collar and necktie, dressed up and photographed at the morgue, and now flashed hideously at the prisoner out of the darkness.
She was looking into the face that made the portrait of the Iron Count so abhorrent to her: the leathery head of a cadaver with eyes that lived.
Without doubt, however, all were actually related to preceding cases of rat plague, i.e., to undiscovered rat cadavers, dead from plague and deserted by infected fleas.
It contains a diagram of the heart and an astrological figure, a cadaver with the thorax and abdomen opened, surrounded by the signs of the zodiac.
They were nearly all old people, prostrated by a spasm in front of the altar, carried in arms, and heaped in piles like cadavers in time of a pest.
These theories are based on experiments carried out on the cadaver, the skull being enclosed in a tight-fitting box and subjected to pressure sufficing to bring about a fracture.
The man opened the corners of the handkerchief, and showed a waxen leg as livid as the leg of a cadaver and on it was painted a festering sore.
Sometimes, however, the genital organs have been cut from the cadaver of a woman, presumably for the purpose of concealing traces of rape that may have preceded the murder.
He carried the finely articulated, bleached skull of a cadaver to his room, and placed it beside a marble statue that was a valued heirloom, the model of Venus of Milo.
This indicates an extensive desertion of fleas from plague rat cadavers and an attack upon human beings, after a fasting period, on the part of the fleas, of several days.
A strange fear seized him, a sort of panicky terror, as he thought that he might all at once see that old woman, with the mask of a cadaver, appear on the threshold.
A man descended into the vault to remove the cadaver, but, before he got quite down, he was taken with convulsions, and fell unconscious into the vault, where he died of suffocation.
The coroners who examined those tiny cadavers found them both dry of all their blood, but could find no blood on the floor of the nursery nor in the cradles.
Vesalius uses the first body for a comprehensive examination of the muscles, ligaments and viscera; whilst the second cadaver is devoted to the relations of the veins, arteries, nerves and viscera.
That small cadaver haunted me, I always saw that head hideously crushed, the blood squirting all over the white clothes of the bedroom, and the bed indelibly stained with blood.
One of the pitiable features of death on the desert is that bodies are found with fingers worn to the bone from frantic digging and often beneath the cadaver is water at two feet.
Since the cadaver bears evidence of a hypodermic puncture, and indications are that the potion was not administered that way, my belief is that this patient died of a syringe of some obscure drug.
It seems unlikely that the king could have dwelt there before the necropolis was closed, for the king was a priest, and it was unlucky for a priest to look upon a cadaver, or upon death.
Our way was marked by the light of the bivouac fires which were seen at intervals and by cadavers of men and horses lying everywhere, and as the moon and the stars were out we could see them well.
I convinced myself, however, of the utter fallacy of this position, in dissections on the cadaver, where in several instances the round ligaments could not be reached without opening the abdominal cavity, and even then it was impossible to trace them.
The danger of pursuing these investigations, to the persons so engaged, must not be lost sight of, and exposure of such nests and rat cadavers should invariably be preceded by thorough spraying of the place, and particularly of the spot where tearing out of double construction is to be done.