lividity

How To Use lividity In A Sentence

• A kind of lividity spread over the picture, bleaching it of all colour. In Mesopotamia
• “If there was fixed lividity at seven A.M., what is the minimum time that has elapsed since death?” In the Still of the Night
• Washington - Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors weighing the fate of a 23-year-old charged with killing a homeless man in Maryland, was confused by the word "lividity" and what role it might have played in explaining the circumstances of the victim's beating death. IOL Technology
• Breaking waves ride over each other reddened by the lividity of a fulminous sky, mount and collapse, as they wrest down a tall toppling ship not far out of landfall.
• Lividity is distributed dorsally, is the usual violaceous color, and blanches with light pressure.
• The guy in the photos with the lividity under the skin didn't get that way from not knowing how to mount a gun; he got it from unintentionally MIS mounting a gun. A Cautionary Hematoma Tale
• The result is a purplish red discoloration known as lividity, or livor mortis, on the body’s “down” side. 206 BONES
• But if the case be not going to get worse, the ecchymosed and livid parts, and those surrounding them become greenish and not hard; for this is a satisfactory proof in all cases of ecchymosis, that they are not to get worse; but when lividity is complicated with hardness, there is danger that the part may become blackened. On Fractures
• The signs of a hot dyscrasia are heat, burning and pain in the wound; of a cold dyscrasia, lividity of the wound; the moist dyscrasia occasions flabbiness (_mollicies_) and profuse suppuration, and the dry produces dryness and induration. Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
• Al Schuler, one of 12 jurors weighing the fate of a 23-year-old charged with killing a homeless man in Maryland, was confused by the word "lividity" and what role it might have played in explaining the circumstances of the victim's beating death. Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles