“Huge-boned, tall, gaunt to cadaverousness, his face a dirty death's head, he was as repellent a nightmare of old age as ever Dore imagined.”
“The men were inclined to be ruddy of face, and their typical stature was meaty, strong, and of middlying height, although it varied into gangling cadaverousness.”
cadaver
A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.