When a person, at the moment of death, grasps any object firmly, there is set up a condition known as cadaveric spasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman] Reference

Now the donor corneas that we have are cadaveric, meaning they come from people who die and donate body organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories] Reference

But they have to wait up to nine years for a cadaveric donation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singapore Considers Allowing Organ Trading] Reference

For more about rigor mortis and cadaveric spasm, see these online resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Screaming Mummies!] Reference

Particularly the one who stood before the others, a cruel grin festering on his sunken, cadaveric face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legacy] Reference

Financial compensation for cadaveric donation, in other words, is a substitute for both paid and unpaid living donation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market for Body Organs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The mark of the cord is not a sign of hanging, is a purely cadaveric phenomenon, and may be produced some hours after death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Effects on mice, etc. A cadaveric alkaloid or ptomaine has been found in the body, possessing many of the actions of aconitine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

So first, they use actually cadaveric skin from cadavers, and then slowly take skin from other parts of the body to start covering that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007] Reference

In fact, her mother had died from complications of the same genetic disease, and her brother had received a cadaveric transplant the year before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saved By The Kindness Of A Virtual Stranger] Reference

Otherwise, she would have to start the time-consuming, punishing process of dialysis in order to get on the five-year waiting list for a cadaveric transplant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saved By The Kindness Of A Virtual Stranger] Reference

The nephrologist explained that her best shot at regaining her health was to receive a living kidney, which would function better and longer than a cadaveric kidney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saved By The Kindness Of A Virtual Stranger] Reference

As a result, many cadaveric organs go to waste, not because would-be donors actively opposed giving their hearts and corneas, but because they have never thought about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scavenging for Organs: Why the Donor Famine Justifies A Radical Harvest] Reference

Post mortem, cadaveric lividity is well marked, especially in nose, lips, ears, etc.; the right cavities of the heart and the venæ cavæ are found gorged with dark fluid blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

Twelve pairs of human cadaveric femurs were utilized.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Burying-beetle refuses no sort of cadaveric putrescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

In other cases, however, the usual cadaveric rigidity appears.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Or did the cadaveric conine develop only in the body after death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

Antigen-independent determinants of cadaveric kidney transplant failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [New England Journal of Medicine] Reference

It is the first recorded legal cadaveric transplant to a foreign national.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Presumed consent and other predictors od cadaveric organ donation in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

There was no remembrance of cadaveric distortion of the features or any odor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

But diminution of their temperature also retards cadaveric rigidity and putrefaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Schaper and de Meara speak of persons having a cadaveric odor during their entire life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Posmertnoe cooling Trupnoe drying Autoliz Late cadaveric phenomenon and stored processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Big Oil Will Be a Big Test for Kazakhstan] Reference

The impact of presumed consent legislation on cadaveric organ donation: a cross-country study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

And so, with knitted brows and stern lips, a cadaveric gaze was returned on her from the mirror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

The cadaveric dimensions of the tracheobronchial tree may be epitomized approximately as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

Whatever there may have been in the body before, certainly they produced a cadaveric ptomaine conine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

This is the Burying-beetle, the Necrophorus, so different from the cadaveric mob in dress and habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

The descriptions and illustrations of the stomach in anatomical works must be disregarded as cadaveric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

Well, you'll say all that might possibly be fallacious; but what will you say to the cadaveric stiffness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3] Reference

It concluded that presumed consent (opting out) was a significant predictor of cadaveric organ donation rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Burn care requires ventilators, multiple surgeries, round-the-clock intensive care and grafts from human cadaveric skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference

A 32-year-old man with a history of end stage renal failure of unknown aetiology received a cadaveric renal transplant in 1995.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The investigators used ten matched cadaveric knees to directly compare the transtibial and anteromedial portal drilling technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference