a. [a. F. cadavérique, or f. L. cadāver (see above) + -IC (Gr. suffix: the L. forms are cadāverīnus, cadāverōsus).]
1. Of or pertaining to dead bodies; characteristic of a corpse. (More technical than cadaverous.)
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 804/2. Chemical actions of a cadaveric description.
1865. Reader, 2 Sept., 269/2. The earliest indications of cadaveric rigidity.
1880. B. Dyer, in Daily News, 7 Oct., 6/7. Certain substances formed in decomposing animal tissues, and for some time known vaguely to chemists under the name of ‘cadaveric alkaloids’—cadaveric, owing to their formation subsequent to death.
1882. Times, 9 Dec., 10/1. Evidence, previously given, with reference to the cadaveric lividities, which he based on three months’ continued experiments upon hospital corpses.
2. Caused by contact with a dead body.
1871. T. Holmes, Syst. Surg. (ed. 2), V. Index, Cadaveric boils. Ibid. (1883), (ed. 3), II. 940. Cadaveric warts have a somewhat special appearance.
