Meaning & use
Diener
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a laboratory or morgue assistant who prepares bodies for autopsy and helps pathologists during examinations.
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The diener wheeled the body into the examination room and prepared the instruments.
She worked as a diener for two years before applying to medical school.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from German, where "Diener" literally means "servant"; the term is standard in American pathology labs.
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morgue assistantautopsy assistant
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