morgue

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morgue

 [morg] a place where dead bodies may be temporarily kept, for identification or until claimed for burial.

morgue

(mōrg), 1. A building or room in a hospital or other facility where the dead are kept pending autopsy, burial, or cremation. 2. A building where unidentified dead are kept pending identification before burial. Synonym(s): mortuary (2) [Fr.]

morgue

(môrg)n.1. A place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.2. A reference file in a newspaper or magazine office.
The section in a hospital where the bodies of decedents or cadavers are stored before being sent either to a funeral home for burial services or to the coroner’s or state medical examiner’s office, if the cause of the death is uncertain or questionable.

morgue

Hospitals The place where decedents or cadavers are stored before being sent either to a funeral home for burial services or to the state medical examiner's office, if the cause of the death is uncertain or questionable

morgue

(mōrg) 1. A building where unidentified cadavers are kept pending identification before burial. 2. A building or room in a hospital or other facility where the dead are kept pending autopsy, burial, or cremation; often includes a laboratory to perform autopsies.
Synonym(s): mortuary (2) . [Fr.]
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in RAK.Indian worker to be cremated in RAKThis large-scale, multinational effort faced immediate challenges, including establishment of four temporary morgues, implementation of safeguards against environmental and occupational health hazards, and coordination of forensic procedures and safety protocols among Thai and international forensic teams.Health concerns associated with disaster victim identification after a tsunami--Thailand, December 26, 2004-March 31, 2005Bodies remained in the streets and in growing piles outside morgues in a Haitian city that has been devastated by floods that have torn apart families and left hungry crowds mobbing truckloads of aid.Stench of death hanging over a devastated cityFlies buzzed around bloated corpses piled high at the city'sthree morgues. The electricity was off, and the stench of death hung over the city.Bodies piled in the streets of storm-stricken HaitiOLD people in care homes are being sent to morgues by care assistants medically unqualified to establish if they are dead or alive.Are OAPs being sent to the morgue ALIVE?occupation: Associated Press survey of morgues in Karbala, Kirkuk, andDeath in BaghdadAndres Serrano's new, large color photographs taken in morgues are portraits, figure studies, and studies of the hands, feet, heads, and genitals of corpses.Andres Serrano