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مَشْرَحَة
morgue /ˈmaʃ.ra.ħa/
nounB2#3967 most common
Also: mortuary, dissecting room, autopsy room
Example sentences
ذَهَبَ الطَّبِيبُ إِلَى المَشْرَحَةِ.
The doctor went to the morgue.
جُثَّةُ الرَّجُلِ فِي المَشْرَحَةِ.
The man's body is in the morgue.
نَقَلُوا الجُثَّةَ إِلَى مَشْرَحَةِ المُسْتَشْفَى.
They moved the body to the hospital morgue.
يَعْمَلُ خَبِيرٌ فِي عِلْمِ الأَمْرَاضِ فِي هَذِهِ المَشْرَحَةِ مُنْذُ عَشْرِ سَنَوَاتٍ.
A pathology expert has worked in this morgue for ten years.
أَجْرَى الطَّبِيبُ الشَّرَعِيُّ تَشْرِيحًا لِلْجُثَّةِ فِي مَشْرَحَةِ المُسْتَشْفَى المَرْكَزِيِّ صَبَاحَ اليَوْمِ.
The forensic doctor performed an autopsy on the body in the central hospital's morgue this morning.
تُعَدُّ المَشَارِحُ فِي كُلِّيَّاتِ الطِّبِّ أَمَاكِنَ أَسَاسِيَّةً لِتَدْرِيبِ الطُّلَّابِ عَلَى التَّشْرِيحِ العَمَلِيِّ.
Morgues in medical schools are essential places for training students in hands-on dissection.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَشْرَحَةٌ | مَشَارِحُ |
| Genitive | مَشْرَحَةٍ | مَشَارِحَ |
| Accusative | مَشْرَحَةً | مَشَارِحَ |
| Vocative | يَا مَشْرَحَةُ | يَا مَشَارِحُ |
Word family
شَرَحَto explain, to cut open
شَرْحexplanation, commentaryتَشْرِيحdissection, anatomyشَرِيحَةslice, chip, stripمَشْرُوحexplained, laid open
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ش-ر-ح (sh-r-ḥ), whose basic sense is to cut open or lay bare. From this root Arabic also gets شَرَحَ, to explain, and تَشْرِيح, dissection or anatomy; the idea of explanation is treated as a kind of cutting open of meaning. The pattern مَفْعَلة marks a place noun, so مَشْرَحَة literally means the place where cutting or dissection happens, and in practice it denotes a morgue.
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