Preferred Label : grave robbing;
MeSH definition : 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. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d
ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from
Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676);
MeSH synonym : grave robberies; grave robbery; robberies, grave; robbing, grave; robbery, grave;
MeSH annotation : usually in historical contexts; check appropriate history tags if pertinent;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave robbing;
Origin ID : D019356;
UMLS CUI : C0376552;
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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. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d
ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from
Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
