(n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
(n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thom Yorke described the company as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse” last year – the dying corpse being the music industry – while David Byrne suggested that "if artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year".
(2) Experimental blows with a saw like the used on the leg of a corpse showed an unexpected result: it was possible to produce wounds of the soft-tissues and the bone similar to those by hatchets.
(3) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(4) The corpse was then “put into a sealed biosecurity device and transferred for incineration at an authorized disposal facility”.
(5) Speaking from his church residence beside the Congo river, where he says corpses now frequently wash up, Nzapalaing added: "We hope we are going to get the attention of the international community.
(6) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(7) Practicability and efficiency of the cricothyreotomy set Nu-Trake was investigated in corpses (n = 10) in the institute of Pathology and clinically in laryngectomy patients (n = 5) including endoscopical controls.
(8) The follow samples were taken from 399 corpses: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF; n = 376, suboccipital), blood (n = 158, femoral vein), and urine (n = 101, at autopsy).
(9) In January, a video surfaced showing US marines apparently urinating on the corpses of three insurgents, and in February anger flared over the burning of the Qur'an.
(10) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(11) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
(12) Say whatever else you like, but at least it's a sign of life in a party that many have written off as a corpse.
(13) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(14) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(15) The study of large arteries carried out in 30 corpses and the comparison of the parameters and outlines of these vessels with those recommended in applied hydraulics have shown correspondence between the arteries structure and the principles used for criation of optimal conditions of the liquid current in hydraulics.
(16) We have a saying in Yemen: ‘It’s forbidden to stab a corpse of the dead.’ We were already dead with poverty and this war is stabbing us again and again.
(17) The authors had collected two cochleas from human corpses died of brain injuries in order to know if the method of specimen preparation conventionally used was adequate for the preservation of ultrastructures and to study the ultrastructural characteristics of the human Corti's organ.
(18) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(19) It is reported on early and late complications on the efferent urinary system by 667 transplantations of allogenic kidneys of corpses.
(20) In a galvanising moment similar to when the corpse of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb was returned to his parents bearing marks of severe torture in May, Syrians have been expressing outrage.
Cremation
Definition:
(n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(2) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(3) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
(4) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(5) Mercury contamination by cremation, therefore comprised only 0.61 to 1.53% of the total mercury contamination produced by all waste incineration methods.
(6) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
(7) We scan the questions on our starters list: "Cremation or burial?
(8) Lee will be cremated after full state honours on Sunday.
(9) The operators themselves did not enter; instead, Jewish inmates from the Sonderkommando were sent in to drag out the bodies for cremation.
(10) Although there is no difference in the funeral director's charges for cremation or burial, the price of a standard-size grave has risen 42% to £612 since 2007.
(11) Among the most difficult cases for law enforcement and medicolegal investigators to investigate are those in which victims have been deliberately burned to cover up a crime, or those in which cremation has resulted from an accident or suicide.
(12) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
(13) These findings are not necessarily applicable to the general population, as the cremation group is not truly representative, but the consistently lower prevalence of IHD suggests that there is over-reporting of this disease in unmonitored death certification.
(14) The absolute difference indicates, that cremation weight is not a useful criterion for identification.
(15) As his head was being shaved, he heard, for the first time, about old people and women being taken to Birkenau to be gassed and cremated.
(16) UK cremation costs have risen more than those for burials: the price of the average cremation is up by 4.2% to £3,294, while the average burial is up by 3.7% to £4,110.
(17) Many have now changed their specifications to upgrade old cremators with the 350kg model, the largest on the market.
(18) She is to be accorded the rare honour of a ceremonial funeral with full military honours at St Paul's Cathedral, central London, followed by a private cremation.
(19) The unit has met all United States and foreign atomic energy commission safety specifications including mechanical shock, industrial fire, accidental crush, cremation, impact, and corrosion.
(20) Friends had scrambled through wreckage to find him, but said they could not afford a car to get him back to his monastery for cremation.