2.American EnglishAmEMX the place where a body is kept before a funeral and where the funeral is sometimes held 殡仪馆
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mortuary• The next day she located his body at a mortuary.• Most of those are autopsied and then released to a mortuary in a relatively shortperiod of time.• The body was taken to the citymortuary.• The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshiftmortuary in a hangar at Schiphol.• They also send a hearse to carry the body to the funeral home or mortuary.• If the person dies in hospital the family will need to collect the body from the mortuary.• I joined her in the mortuary.• An earlier announcementnamed the wrongmortuary.