An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]来自拉丁语mors,死亡，死的，词源同mortal,murder.引申词义殡葬业从业者。
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词根词缀： -mort-死 + -ician名词词尾,对某领域熟悉的人