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rigor mortis
[ rig-er mawr-tis, or, especially British, rahy-gawr ]
noun
- the stiffening of the body after death.
rigor mortis
/ 藞r瑟伞蓹 藞m蓴藧t瑟s /
noun
- pathol the stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity of a dead body, caused by depletion of ATP in the tissues. It begins two to four hours after death and lasts up to about four days, after which the muscles and joints relax
rigor mortis
- Muscular stiffening following death, resulting from the unavailability of energy needed to interrupt contraction of the muscle fibers.
rigor mortis
- Stiffening of the muscles of the body that occurs after death. Rigor mortis is Latin for 鈥渟tiffness of death.鈥
Notes
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rigor mortis1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of rigor mortis1
Example Sentences
Another remembers having to flatten out a corpse in which rigor mortis had set in.
In an affidavit filed with a search warrant, Detective Andrew Patterson stated that when investigators arrived on Feb. 3, the boy was cold to the touch and his body was in rigor mortis.
These claims were amplified in an article by the Jerusalem Post, an influential Israeli newspaper, which showed an image of Muhammad in rigor mortis after his death and said it proved he was a doll.
Mexico City investigators also found video from a Mexico City apartment building that showed a bearded, balding man lugging L贸pez鈥檚 body 鈥 her legs stiff with rigor mortis 鈥 through a hallway and then a garage.
The breath stops, the heart stops, the brain stops and rigor mortis soon appears.
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