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Descriptor English:
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Grave Robbing
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Robo de Tumbas
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Violação de Sepulturas
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Synonyms English:
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Grave Robberies
Grave Robbery
Robberies, Grave
Robbery, Grave
Robbing, Grave
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Tree Number:
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I01.198.240.385
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Definition English:
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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) |
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Indexing Annotation English:
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usually in historical contexts; check appropriate history tags if pertinent
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History Note English:
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97
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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33189
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Unique Identifier:
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D019356
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