and cadaveric spasm (a muscle spasm causing a dead body to twitch or jerk). A cadaver graft (also called "postmortem graft") is the grafting of tissue from a dead body onto a living human to repair a defect or disfigurement. Cadavers can be observed for their stages of decomposition, helping to determine how long a body has been dead.

Cadavers have been used in art to depict the human body in paintings and drawings more accurately.

Human decay

Observation of the various stages

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