Definition of "deadhouse" []

• A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. (noun)

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• "There is also a hovel called a deadhouse, into which these bodies are conveyed till a grave has been dug in some “accursed place,” by members of an"
• "There is also a hovel called a deadhouse, into which these bodies are conveyed till a grave has been dug in some "accursed place," by members of an "accursed" class."
• "In 1932, nearly four decades after he returned from Europe, Meyer recounted to the membership of the American Psychiatric Association of which he was then president about the time when he first came to America—“days when real science in medicine was identified with the deadhouse and the use of microscopes” and psychiatrists wanted nothing more than to adopt that identity."