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Then he sprayed the fingertips with a drying agent while his diener filled a shallow glass saucer with black ink, viscous from the cold of the autopsy room, and microwaved it for several seconds.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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The diener, a tall black man in surgical greens, hurried over to intercept him—the autopsy was already under way.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Then he sprayed the fingertips with a drying agent while his diener filled a shallow glass saucer with black ink, viscous from the cold of the autopsy room, and microwaved it for several seconds.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Meanwhile the diener had laid out a fingerprint card on the stainless-steel counter.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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The diener, a tall black man in surgical greens, hurried over to intercept him—the autopsy was already under way.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Meanwhile the diener had laid out a fingerprint card on the stainless-steel counter.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Then he sprayed the fingertips with a drying agent while his diener filled a shallow glass saucer with black ink, viscous from the cold of the autopsy room, and microwaved it for several seconds.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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Meanwhile the diener had laid out a fingerprint card on the stainless-steel counter.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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The diener, a tall black man in surgical greens, hurried over to intercept him—the autopsy was already under way.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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He turns to his diener, a young woman who assists him during autopsies.
HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010
chained_bear commented on the word diener
"He needed money for centrifuges, glassware, heating, not to mention 'dieners'—the word still in use for technicians—and young scientists."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 429
February 17, 2009
john commented on the word diener
"The word Diener is German for servant. In English, it is generally used to describe the person, in the morgue, responsible for handling, moving, and cleaning the corpse (though, at some institutions dieners perform the entire dissection at autopsy). It is derived from the German word Leichendiener, which literally means corpse servant."
—Wikipedia
November 22, 2011