bodysnatching

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

body +‎ snatching

Noun[edit]

bodysnatching (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The illicit theft of cadavers, especially by exhuming them from graves, to sell to them to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
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