stiff(BODY)slang

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Death and dying
all-cause mortality
antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
ghost
have one foot in the graveidiom
macabre
perish
posthumously
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff
toll

Examples from literature

But lately a former millionaire died in a poorhouse and left his body as a cadaver for medical students. 
He is handed a case to experiment on, just as a medical student is handed a cadaver to dissect. 
It has been found in small numbers in the blood and tissues of yellow fever cadavers in a certain number of the cases examined. 
The cadaver is then exposed in the open air to the tender mercies of crows, foxes and wolves. 
They had taken a cadaver from the refrigerator and stood it in a certain position. 

cadaver | American Dictionary

cadaver
noun[ C ]
 medicalus/kəˈdæv·ər/
a dead human body, esp. one used by medical students for study