resurrection man

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

Word forms

resurrection man resurrection men resurrection-man

Etymology

resurrection (“the act of rising from the dead and becoming alive again”) + man

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