cadaveric rigidity
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Cadaveric — Ca*dav er*ic, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. [1913 Webster] {Cadaveric alkaloid}, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cadaveric alkaloid — Cadaveric Ca*dav er*ic, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. [1913 Webster] {Cadaveric alkaloid}, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cadaveric spasm — Cadaveric spasm, also known as instantaneous rigor, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death, persists into the period of rigor mortis [… … Wikipedia
rigidity — 1. Stiffness or inflexibility. SYN: rigor (1). 2. In psychiatry and clinical psychology, an aspect of personality characterized by an individual s resistance to change. 3. In neurology, one type of increase in … Medical dictionary
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rigor — 1. SYN: rigidity (1). 2. SYN: chill (2). [L. stiffness] acid r. coagulation of muscle protein induced by acids. calcium r. arrest of the heart in the fully contracted state as a result of po … Medical dictionary
rigor mortis — /rigar mortas/ Cadaveric rigidity; a rigidity or stiffening of the muscular tissue and joints of the body, which sets in at a greater or less interval after death, but usually within a few hours, and which is one of the recognized tests of death … Black's law dictionary
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