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Webster 1913 Edition
Cadaveric
Ca-dav′er-ic
,Adj.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous;
as,
. cadaveric
rigidityDunglison.
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
.