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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.

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  1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
  2. adj. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
  3. 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.
  4. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changesproduced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison.Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes ofdecomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be thecause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.
  5. j:100 a of or relating to a cadaver or corpse