A cadaver laboratory is a laboratory that uses frozen cadavers for hands-on training, education, and development of new surgical techniques.

What is a cadaver lab dead body?

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.

What do you learn in a cadaver lab?

They are taught to view the cadaver as their first patient, learning to read the body for the story it tells about health and illness. Most importantly, Dr. Love tells them these cadavers are gifts — donations from former people who chose to give their bodies to medical education.