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(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

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resurrection man

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euphemistic historical

(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

Japanese Meaning

墓荒らし、すなわち墓から遺体を盗み出し、解剖医や外科医などに売る者。

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The surgeon refused to be seen consorting with a resurrection man, despite the desperate need for cadavers for study.

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その外科医は、研究のために遺体が切実に必要だったにもかかわらず、死体売買人と関係を持っているところを見られるのを嫌がった。

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(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

Persons (under the name of resurrection-men) continue their business, getting from 1 guinea to 5 or 6, according to the value set upon the corpse they take up.

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