Question

A place where dead bodies are kept for medical examination is called one word substitute

Answer 1

The mortuary is a place where corpses (dead bodies) are kept. Each hospital has a mortuary, because sometimes it is not possible to cremate or bury the body immediately after the person passes away. The hospital authorities may need to wait for someone to first identify and then claim the body, if it is of a family member. At other times, family members themselves request the police to conduct an enquiry into the cause of the death, especially if it has happened under suspicious circumstances. In both these cases, it is necessary to preserve the body as it is. Therefore, it is put in the mortuary, where very cold temperatures are maintained to prevent the body from decomposing.