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Svepnings- & visningslokaler

English translation: shrouding and viewing rooms


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Swedish term or phrase:Svepnings- & visningslokaler
English translation:shrouding and viewing rooms
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09:57 Jan 31, 2012
Swedish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / Terminologi
Swedish term or phrase: Svepnings- & visningslokaler
Sjukhus med egna bårhus har ofta speciella rum för svepning och visning dit anhöriga kan komma för att se den avlidna. "Rooms for shrouding and display"?
Profdoc
Local time: 05:15
shrouding and viewing rooms
Explanation:
The body is covered or shrouded with a body bag to cover any mutilated or defaced areas, prior to viewing by relatives.
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sampat
Switzerland
Local time: 05:15
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3 +1chapel of rest
Christine Andersen
3shrouding and viewing roomssampat
3preparation and viewing roomlena helson


  

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chapel of rest


Explanation:
The expression used in English is not a literal translation: it is called a chapel of rest.

These websites deal largely with unexpected deaths, but an elderly relative who had died peacefully would also be laid in a chapel of rest until the funeral.


http://www.healthtalkonline.org/Living_with_dying/Bereavemen...

http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1144083

Christine Andersen
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preparation and viewing room


Explanation:
maybe

lena helson
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shrouding and viewing rooms


Explanation:
The body is covered or shrouded with a body bag to cover any mutilated or defaced areas, prior to viewing by relatives.

sampat
Switzerland
Local time: 05:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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