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Noun: body snatcher
  1. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
    "In the 19th century, body snatchers supplied cadavers to medical schools";
    - graverobber, ghoul

Derived forms: body snatchers

Type of: stealer, thief

Encyclopedia: Body snatcher