\Ca*dav"er*ic\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes
produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
--Dunglison.
{Cadaveric alkaloid}, an alkaloid generated by the processes
   of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by
   some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by
   the bodies. See {Ptomaine}.