embalming fluid

Blood is removed and embalming fluid - containing the disinfectant formaldehyde - is pumped around the body.

Fluid and gases in the body's organs are also removed and replaced with embalming fluid.

My parents smell like a mixture of gardenias and embalming fluid, even in the evenings after their showers.

“A man stung by the presidential bee contracts an incurable disease that only embalming fluid can cure,” FDR adviser Harold Ickes said of New York Gov. Thomas Dewey in 1949.

“Absolutely there’s a shift going on,” said Tim Collison, the chief operating officer of The Dodge Company, the largest embalming fluid manufacturer in the country.