Stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)

Annotation

usually in historical contexts; check appropriate history tags if pertinent

obvykle v historických souvislostech; je-li třeba, vyber odpovídající historické tagy

DUI

D019356 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0028811

History note

97

Public note

97