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What (who) is morgue - definition
PLACE FOR THE STORAGE OF HUMAN CORPSES AWAITING IDENTIFICATION OR BURIAL
Mortuary; Morgues; Waiting mortuary; Rose cottage; Mortuary practice
![A close-up view of a dead body in the morgue in [[Charité]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/13-11-12-rechtsmedizin-berlin-charite-by-RalfR-20.jpg?width=200 "A close-up view of a dead body in the morgue in [[Charité]].")
![Deceased in a 53-foot 'mobile morgue' outside a hospital in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]] on April 27, 2020](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/COVID19 deceased in Hackensack NJ April 27.jpg?width=200 "Deceased in a 53-foot 'mobile morgue' outside a hospital in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]] on April 27, 2020")
![Latin phrase ''"[[de mortuis nihil nisi bene]]"'' ("Of the dead, say nothing but good") written at the old morgue of Eura Church in [[Eura]], [[Finland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De mortuis nihil nisi bene.JPG?width=200 "Latin phrase ''\"[[de mortuis nihil nisi bene]]\"'' (\"Of the dead, say nothing but good\") written at the old morgue of Eura Church in [[Eura]], [[Finland]]")
![Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rembrandt - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp.jpg?width=200 "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]]")
![Bath]], England](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Royal United Hospital, mortuary and pathology laboratory.jpg?width=200 "Bath]], England")
morgue
n.
1) a city (esp. AE); newspaper morgue
2) in a morgue (to work in a morgue)
morgue
n.
Dead-house.
morgue
[m?:g]
¦ noun
1. a mortuary.
2. informal a newspaper's archive or library of cuttings, photographs, or other reference material.
Origin
C19: from Fr., orig. the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.
Wikipedia
Morgue
A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal. In modern times, corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.
Examples of use of morgue
1. In November, 555 of the 886 bodies brought to the morgue bore gunshot wounds, as did 47' of the 787 brought to the morgue in December, according to the U.N. mission in Iraq, which tracks deaths reported by Baghdad‘s morgue.
2. Sumarno, an official in the morgue at Sarjito hospital in Yogyakarta, told Reuters that 36 bodies had been taken to the morgue room there.
3. After the Samarra bombing, morgue officials brought in refrigerated trucks to hold corpses and crammed refrigerators in the morgue far beyond their intended capacity.
4. Gabriel‘s "warehouse morgue" –– 2:56) Another temporary morgue is at the intersection of Interstates 10 and 610 inside the city, FEMA spokesman Bill Lehman said.
5. "We don‘t know to whom the recovered fragments belong, the six unidentified bodies in the morgue or the two bodies that are still missing," the morgue worker said.