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Stiff Miners
Stiff may refer to: * Stiff, a human corpse * Stiffness, a material's resistance to bending * Stiff (novel), ''Stiff'' (novel), a novel by Shane Maloney in his Murray Whelan series ** Stiff (film), ''Stiff'' (film), an Australian TV movie based on the novel * Stiff (professional wrestling), how a wrestler attacks an opponent * ''Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers'', a book by Mary Roach * Stiff Records, a British record label * Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF), an annual event * Jimmy Stiff, former member of American rock band Jackyl * Stiff (album), ''Stiff'' (album), by White Denim. See also * Stiff diagram, in hydrogeology and geochemistry, a way of displaying water chemistry data * Stiff equation, an ordinary differential equation that exhibits behaviour at two widely different scales {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpse
A cadaver or corpse is a dead human body that is used by medical students, physicians and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being. Students in medical school study and dissect cadavers as a part of their education. Others who study cadavers include archaeologists and arts students. The term ''cadaver'' is used in courts of law (and, to a lesser extent, also by media outlets such as newspapers) to refer to a dead body, as well as by recovery teams searching for bodies in natural disasters. The word comes from the Latin word ''cadere'' ("to fall"). Related terms include ''cadaverous'' (resembling a cadaver) 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 st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
