(n.) A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
(2) Hospital records showed 48 bodies and many body parts were brought to the morgue.
(3) By the end of the day there were 29 bodies in the hospital morgue.
(4) This results in a better acceptance on behalf of the donor families, France-Transplant harvesting team and morgue staff members.
(5) I then left the scene and went to a nearby hospital, the Coptic hospital, where we were told that most of the bodies of those killed had been sent, and we were given access to the morgue of the hospital and we counted 17 bodies.
(6) The Pavlovic family, unaware of her fate and assisted by the Serbian embassy, spent three days traipsing from hospitals to morgues searching for her, reporting back to Aca as he recovered from his own surgeries at l’hôpital de Kremlin‑Bicêtre.
(7) "God willing we will get our revenge," screamed a shaking Naget Mostafa on Sunday evening, as the corpse of her dead brother, Abdallah, was carried out of the Zeinhom morgue.
(8) frequency of cysticercosis in Peru's hospitals is 1.15%, while in the morgue, which represents approximately what happens in general population in 0.15%.
(9) Sometimes the family has had previous unhappy experiences with this procedure, and certainly many clinicians have been repelled by sights, sounds, and behaviors they have observed in morgues.
(10) At least eight bodies have arrived at a morgue in Cairo bearing signs of torture, the human rights group said.
(11) Corpses were piled on pickup trucks and delivered to the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, where the hospital director, Guy LaRoche, estimated there were 1,500 bodies piled outside the morgue.
(12) We took her to a house where they treated the injured but, before reaching the house, she already died.” Other witnesses described raids on two buildings inside the residential compound of the IMN’s leader, Ibraheem Zakzaky, saying soldiers targeted a makeshift clinic and morgue there.
(13) The commission criticised the autopsies performed by the attorney general’s office as being sloppy and incomplete and said the morgue turned over the wrong body to one family.
(14) The agency said weeks of bombings and street battles have also left hospitals damaged and without water, morgues inundated with bodies, and ambulances unable to reach casualties because of a lack of fuel.
(15) Although Poe is most celebrated for stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket , stands as a classic adventure story with disturbing supernatural elements that has fascinated and influenced many subsequent writers.
(16) Morgue officials in Port Said said most of the dead had been killed by blows, falls or as a result of being crushed.
(17) Under Morsi, just as under the military, all efforts to defend, treat or trace people, to identify bodies in the morgue, to empower searching parents have been undertaken by young people.
(18) At one point in 2011 Lohan was ordered to do a series of 12-hour shifts of community work in the LA county morgue .
(19) Separate areas are needed for persons with minor injuries, relatives and friends, the press, and a morgue.
(20) His cousin, Alaa, was in tears after a fruitless search through hospital morgues in Port Said, which were holding more than 50 bodies.
Mortuary
Definition:
(a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
(a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
(a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(2) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
(3) By late morning, dozens more bloodied corpses had been brought to the town's tiny mortuary, where they lay three to four deep, some burned beyond recognition.
(4) In another trial, 1% 'Virkon' solution proved very effective in decontaminating mortuary tables.
(5) Standing in the forecourt of Cairo's Zeinhom mortuary, waiting to pick up the corpse of his friend, Amr Hussein could scarcely believe he was there.
(6) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
(7) The body was transferred to St Pancras mortuary, where the resident pathologist was Freddy Patel.
(8) The bodies of the three men were collected from the mortuary on Wednesday and taken to the Handsworth Islamic Centre.
(9) The records of 248 female homicides and suicides admitted to the Salt River State Mortuary between January 1990 and July 1991 were reviewed with specific attention to mode of death and blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
(10) Recommendations included improved privacy for families and friends; more sensitive body viewing, mortuary, autopsy and funeral arrangements; and better in-service education for staff and information giving for families.
(11) Occupational exposure was the probable cause of six hepatitis B infections (affecting haematology, biochemistry, and microbiology staff), three of tuberculosis (affecting mortuary and morbid anatomy workers), seven shigella, three salmonella (including one typhoid) and one pseudocholera infection (all in microbiology medical laboratory scientific officers), and a streptococcal infection in a mortuary technician.
(12) Postmortem examinations were carried out by two pathologists working at hospital and public mortuaries in west London.
(13) Amnesty researchers also witnessed emaciated corpses in mortuaries, and one former Giwa detainee told the organisation that around 300 people in his cell died after being denied water for two days: “Sometimes we drank people’s urine, but even the urine you at times could not get.” The conditions for prisoners in Giwa barracks and detention centres in Damaturu were allegedly so overcrowded that hundreds of detainees were packed into small cells where they had to take turns sleeping or even sitting on the floor.
(14) For the moment, though, Isis militants are killing about five or six people a day, the governor said, citing sources inside the city's mortuary.
(15) Brown adipose tissue was investigated in two cases of cot death in which core temperatures were above 40 degrees C on arrival at the mortuary.
(16) The mortuary table population could be a relation for vital potentials.
(17) This discovery constitutes the earliest solid evidence for intentional defleshing of a human ancestor and offers new research avenues for the investigation of early hominid mortuary practices.
(18) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(19) The organisation also obtained evidence that in 2013, more than 4,700 bodies were brought to a mortuary from a detention facility in Giwa barracks.
(20) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.