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mortuary

[mawr-choo-er-ee] / ˈmɔr tʃuˌɛr i /
NOUN
funeral home
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She had provided a DNA sample in January but was told it had been lost, so her mother's body had been in the mortuary unidentified for several months.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Lyubov was still searching for her mother's body, until she visited the mortuary last October during a trip to the regional capital Kursk.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Nearby, close to the hospital's mortuary, photos of bodies recovered from the mud are on display.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

So what do we know about the failings in post-death care and the mortuary service?

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Obiora agreed not to go to the mortuary, but he followed the men and watched closely as they loaded the ozu into the station wagon ambulance.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With mortuaries overflowing, Nepal has buried hundreds of bodies in mass graves after taking DNA samples for future identification, according to police.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

With mortuaries overflowing in Nepal, authorities have had to bury hundreds of unidentified bodies after DNA sampling.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

With mortuaries overflowing in Nepal, authorities have begun burying hundreds of unidentified bodies after DNA sampling.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

A funeral director has been banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in Leeds after keeping babies' bodies at her home, a BBC investigation has revealed.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

But other churches in the neighbourhood of Morlaix are well worth visiting; churches typical of the Finistère, with their wonderful calvaries, mortuaries and triumphal arches.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Charles W. Wood


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