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- adjective   Not 
embalmed . 
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cremating an unembalmed body (or burying it in real dirt) would seem obviously less costly and more eco-friendly.
Boing Boing 2009
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Listen, the morgue cannot hold a body unembalmed indefinitely.
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You need to have a blood specimen that is from an unembalmed person in order to do any type of testing like this.
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If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then thou art as far removed from the Almighty as the flushings of cholera mixed with the decaying flesh of the unembalmed corpse.
Think Progress » NBC: Saddam’s Execution Could ‘Fuel The Civil War’ 2006
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The guide carefully explains that this is caused from a natural muscle movement during the process of rigor in an unembalmed body.
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The guide carefully explains that this is caused from a natural muscle movement during the process of rigor in an unembalmed body.
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He walked to the last of three stainless steel tables and took the unembalmed body in his arms.
Violets Are Blue Patterson, James 2001
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He described the body as being "that of a well-developed, well-nourished, unembalmed white female."
My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996
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The body is cold and unembalmed with full rigor and posterior dependent fixed lividity.
The Concrete Blonde Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994
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The body is cold and unembalmed with full rigor and posterior dependent fixed lividity.
The Black Echo Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1992
 
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