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morgue
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morgue (morg) a place where dead bodies may be kept for identification or until claimed for burial.
morgue (môrg)
n.
A place in which dead bodies are temporarily kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.

morgue
[môrg]
Etymology: Fr, mortuary
a unit of a hospital with facilities for the storage and autopsy of the dead.

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

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


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Byline: LIAM CHRISTOPHER BODIES 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.
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occupation: Associated Press survey of morgues in Karbala, Kirkuk, and Tikrit, 2004; U.
 
 
 
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