Rigor Mortis Definition

Rigor Mortis Sentence Examples

• They are in a state of extreme contraction, far exceeding the usual rigor mortis.

• At some point over night the whole thing just locked, to be found in the same state of digital rigor mortis this morning.

• The body may also become rather stiff, although this is not the same as the rigor mortis that will follow several hours after death.

• After death the position of the body may or may not be flexed; usually rigor mortis develops rapidly.

• The cardiac contractions become irregular, the ventricle assumes curious shapes - "hour-glass," &c. - becomes very pale and bloodless, and finally the heart stops in a state of spasm, which shortly afterwards becomes rigor-mortis.