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means A person trained to preserve and prepare dead bodies, usually by replacing blood with preservative chemicals, so they can be viewed or held before burial.

from Traces back through French 'embaumer' to 'baume' — balm — the aromatic resin used since antiquity to anoint and slow the decay of the dead. The 'em-' simply means 'to put into' or 'cover with,' so an embalmer is literally one who applies the balm. The practice long predates the word: Egyptian preservers were doing the essential work millennia before French gave English this tidy label for it.