A room, usually in a hospital, where the bodies of deceased people are kept refrigerated until they are taken to be buried or cremated. Hospital morgues also hold dead bodies that require identification or that await autopsies.
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"The morgue in a abandoned hospital in Deventer, Holland, April 9, 2009" by P.J.L Laurens is licensed under CC BY-SA.
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Merriam-Webster Online
N.d. Morgue. Http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morgue, accessed February 13, 2015.