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mortuary::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | dead room, morgue |
| Type of | edifice, building |
| Has types | crematory, funeral-residence, funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, crematorium |
mortuary:: | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of mortuary
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The mortuary received a preliminary death certificate from the coroner's office.
From the washingtonpost.com
No need for embalming fluids, mortuary wakes, fancy caskets and concrete vaults.
From the sfgate.com
He also built a Gothic chapel in the grounds where he is buried in the mortuary.
From the edp24.co.uk
The parecclesion was used as a mortuary chapel for family burials and memorials.
From the en.wikipedia.org
At 5.45am local time two mortuary attendants arrived with a plain wooden coffin.
From the express.co.uk
There is no mortuary at the hospital, and the room has just an air conditioner.
From the telegraph.co.uk
No one yet knows how the people in the mortuary ended up in their unmarked grave.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Each of the 36 refrigerators in the mortuary has been fitted with motion sensors.
From the independent.co.uk
The Dover mortuary changed its policy to burying the parts at sea in June 2008.
From the dailymail.co.uk
- Of or relating to or characteristic of death
- Morgue: a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
- A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy or disposal by burial, cremation or otherwise. In modern times they have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.
- Mortuary (also known as Embalmed in the UK and Hall of Death in West Germany) was a 1983 slasher film/horror movie which starred Bill Paxton, Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Lynda Day George, with Michael Berryman (who only appears in the film's trailer) and Christopher George in one of his ...
- Mortuary is a 2005 horror-thriller film directed by Tobe Hooper. It stars Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, and Denise Crosby.
- This is a complete list of episodes from the TV series The Simple Life starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The series included 54 episodes and 2 specials that aired between January 20, 2004 and August 5, 2007 in the United States.
- (Mortuaries) Establishments where dead bodies are kept until burial. This classification includes funeral homes.
- A synonym for funeral home - a building specifically designed and constructed for caring for the dead.
- A place to store corpses before burial, from mortuarie, a Middle English word for a gift from the deceased's estate to the parish priest, from Latin mortuarium, a receptacle for dead things, from word for to die.
