English Dictionary

resurrection man

名詞

婉語 歴史的

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

日本語の意味

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。

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

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。

意味（1）

(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.

resurrection men （ plural ）