CADAVEROUS
\kɐdˈavəɹəs], \kɐdˈavəɹəs], \k_ɐ_d_ˈa_v_ə_ɹ_ə_s]\
Definitions of CADAVEROUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
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Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
By Oddity Software
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Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
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Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
By Noah Webster.
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Belonging to the dead body; as cadaverous smell. The Cadav'erous or Hippocrat'ic face, (see Face), is an unfavourable sign in disease, and generally denotes a fatal termination.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland