Morgue
Morgue
Morgue (/mɔːrɡ/), from the French morgue, which means 'to look at solemnly, to defy'. First used to describe the inner wicket of a prison, where new prisoners were kept so that jailers and turnkeys could recognize them in the future, it took on its modern meaning in fifteenth-century Paris to describe part of the Châtelet used for the storage and identification of unknown corpses.
Morgue is traditionally used to describe a place where bodies of deceased persons are kept temporarily pending identification or removal for autopsy or respectful burial, cremation or other method. In modern times, a morgue is a place where forensic evidence is gathered, and autopsies are performed to determine the cause and manner of death.
Related Terms
- Autopsy: A post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
- Forensic Pathology: The branch of medicine concerned with determining cause of death, usually for criminal law cases.
- Embalming: The process of preserving a body to delay decomposition, often for display at a funeral.
- Cremation: The process of burning a dead body until it turns into ashes.
- Burial: The act of placing a dead body into a grave in the earth.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Morgue
- Wikipedia's article - Morgue
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