Usually means: Grave robber for medical study.
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  1. resurrection man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. resurrection-man: Wordnik
  3. resurrection-man, resurrection man: Wiktionary
  4. resurrection man: Dictionary.com
  5. Resurrection Man (DC Comics), Resurrection Man (comics), Resurrection Man (film), Resurrection man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Resurrection Man: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resurrection man: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (resurrection man)

noun:  (euphemistic, historical) A man who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.

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