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comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric
Pertaining to a corpse. quotations examples
Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157
Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver. quotations examples
He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21