cadaveric

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
cadaveric
    adj 1: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long
           anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: {cadaverous},
           {cadaveric}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cadaveric \Ca*dav"er*ic\, a.
   Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
   produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
   --Dunglison.
   [1913 Webster]

   {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}.
      [1913 Webster] Cadaverine
    

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