NOUN
- muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days
- temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death
How To Use rigor mortis In A Sentence
- Christian grappled with the body but it wouldn't uncurl: maybe rigor mortis had set in. THE EXECUTION
- Christian grappled with the body but it wouldn't uncurl: maybe rigor mortis had set in. THE EXECUTION
- Rigor mortis gave the heartsick survivor convincing evidence for burial.
- They knew about immediate postmortem changes, such as cooling of the body (algor mortis) and temporary stiffening of the muscles (rigor mortis), but these changes don't really alter the appearance of the deceased. Plague Vampire Exorcism
- The significant factors in establishing time of death — ambient temperature, rigor mortis, algor mortis (body temperature), livor mortis (settling of the blood), autolysis and putrefaction (indicators of decomposition) — are useful only when the body is first examined, not after a week's refrigeration. Disordered Minds
- Rh factor rheumatic fever right brain rigor mortis root rubella rubeola 22. Medicine and Health
- Later, Hopkins worked with Walter Fletcher on the metabolic changes occurring in muscular contractions and rigor mortis. Sir Frederick Hopkins - Biography
- After death, bodies are rubbed and anointed to remove rigor mortis.
- Unlike many actors of his generation, he has respected and honed his talent rather than squandered it indiscriminately or succumbed to the rigor mortis of self-parody.
- My whole body tensed: I felt as if I was going into rigor mortis. NIGHT SISTERS
