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Unfortunately there's far too few cadavers available for this purpose. It's one reason I plan on donating my body when I'm done with it...
Cadavers (especially when more than one is used in a class) give us the opportunity to exam the wide range of variations in human pathology, as opposed to that healthy 20 year old we have become so accustomed to in our anatomy books. Moreover, if you get lucky enough to get an individual who died of a condition which would alter their anatomy, it is an excellent opportunity for you to observe the end result of that, up close and personal.