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mortician
[ mawr-tish-uhn ]
mortician
/ ɔːˈɪʃə /
noun
- another word for undertaker
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mortician1
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; mort(uary) + -ician
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mortician1
C19: from mortuary + -ician, as in physician
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"We go from service to lifesaving to mortician, dealing with dead bodies and then doing crowd control," the 40-year-old says.
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I learned that in August 2023 from a mortician preparing to cremate my mother.
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She trained as a forensic pathologist and worked as a mortician in Mexico City.
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The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.
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In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.
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