body snatching

There are also modern-day reports of body snatching, although this is very rare.

Some of them derisively refer to the effort as "body snatching."

In many instances the students had to resort to fairly regular body snatching.

He gained notoriety for being convicted of body snatching, and later went on to become a professor.

This led to body snatching to fill the shortfall.

And I thought you might write up the report in a favorable manner that didn't cite me for body snatching.

Body snatching is the secret disinterment of corpses from graveyards.

There was cause for concern: body snatching was perceived to be "a daily occurrence."

Body snatching became a growth industry in 19th century, as medical schools required fresh bodies for young surgeons to practice on.

"My position with the local authorities is anything but cordial, and I've no wish to be arrested for body snatching.

Drivers are not to pick up sluggers en route to or standing outside the line, a practice referred to as "body snatching".

"Like charging you with body snatching?"

Those who practised body snatching were often called "resurrectionists" or "resurrection-men."

The body snatching was jarring.

With no reliable figures for the number of dissections that took place in 18th-century Britain, the true scale of body snatching can only be estimated.

So, human samples are of prime importance, and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will really be serving their country."

A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools.

Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York were renowned for body snatching activity: all locales provided plenty of cadavers.

A related act is body snatching, disinterring a grave for the purpose of stealing a corpse rather than for stealing other objects.

In 1819, he was arrested, charged, and found guilty of multiple counts of body snatching in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

"History records no more shameless example of body snatching,..." as John Julius Norwich put it.

The article suggests that the number of empty coffins that have been discovered "proves beyond a doubt that at this time body snatching was frequent".

Moore, a journalist and first-time author, doesn't condone body snatching or vivisection, but she understands why they were done - because there were no alternatives.

It was later revealed that he is half human and half Parajeev (literally meaning parasite, a breed of body snatching aliens).