From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmorticianmor‧ti‧cian /mɔːˈtɪʃən $ mɔːr-/ noun [countable] American English BOMXsomeone whose job is to arrange funerals and prepare bodies to be buried SYN undertaker British English
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mortician• Law school professors, in my view, are the drones and morticians of the profession.• Funeral directors are also called morticians or undertakers.• The driver is a furniture mortician, escorting dead sofas to a grave in a landfill.• We strive like obsequious morticians to provide consolation by enshrining a corpse.• We say undertaker, they say mortician.Origin mortician (1800-1900) Latin mors ( → MORTAL1) + English -ician 