Medical Definition of Grave robbing

1. The 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. The infamous practice of "burking", murder to procure bodies for dissection, was given the name of a rascal named w. Burke, hanged in edinburgh in 1829. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grave Robbing

Graves' orbitopathy
graveside
gravesides
gravesite
gravesites
gravest
gravestone
gravestones
graveward
graveyard
graveyards
graveyard shift
graveyard watch
grave accent
grave mound
grave robbing (current term)
grave wax
gravid
gravid
gravida
gravida
gravidae
gravidas
gravidation
gravida I
gravida II
gravida III
gravidic
gravidic retinitis
gravidic retinopathy

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