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embalmer
A professional who prepares bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements. Respnsibilities include:
- Washes and dries body, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air drier.
- Inserts convex celluloid or cotton between eyeball and eyelid to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelid.
- Presses diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- May join lips, using needle and thread or wire.
- Packs body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Makes incision in arm or thigh, using scalpel, inserts pump tubes into artery, and starts pump that drains blood from circulatory system and replaces blood with embalming fluid.
- Incises stomach and abdominal walls and probes internal organs, such as bladder and liver, using trocar to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Attaches trocar to pump-tube, starts pump, and repeats probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Closes incisions, using needle and suture.
- Reshapes or reconstructs disfigured or maimed bodies, using materials, such as clay, cotton, plaster of paris, and wax.
- Applies cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance.
- Dresses body and places body in casket.
- May arrange funeral details, such as type of casket or burial dress and place of interment.
- May maintain records, such as itemized list of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
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