Crossword-Solution: ADIPOCERE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Adipocere | n. | A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ADIPOCERE | anagram | ACEPERIOD |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ADIPOCERE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| GREYISH fatty substance | 1 answer |
| SAPONACEOUS substance | 1 answer |
| WAXLIKE substance produced by exposure of fleshy tissue to moisture with exclusion of air | 1 answer |
| WAXY substance formed in dead bodies decomposing in water | 1 answer |
| waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses | 1 answer |
| WAXLIKE substance | 6 answers |
| Wax | 40 answers |
| Grease | 61 answers |
| Fatten | 66 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ADIPOCERE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
17 +2
New Suggestion for "ADIPOCERE"
Related word tools
Sentences with ADIPOCERE (5)
The autopsy on the exhumed body of Perrotte Mace was inconclusive, owing to the condition of adipocere.
But I shall stay here, as I told you before.” “Then you’ll be buried in Kensal Green and turn into adipocere with the others,” said Torpenhow.
From this adipocere, fatty acids would be gradually formed, the glycerol being washed away, and finally the acids would be decomposed by the pressure into hydrocarbons and free carbonic acid gas.
And wherever we look in the realm of physical man, even "from the red outline of beginning Adam" to the amorphous adipocere of the last corpse when fate's black curtain falls on our race, we shall discern death.
There was not a trace of adipocere--the peculiar waxy soap that forms in bodies that decay in water or in a damp situation.