A peculiar appearance of cadaveric lividity is observed in bodies which have been wrapped in a sheet and allowed to cool or that have cooled in their clothing.
Hofmann thinks that the lividity of the upper border of the furrow is due to the stopping of the venous blood descending from the head.
While cadaveric lividity is seen in all bodies after death, it is especially pronounced in those persons who have died suddenly in full health or by violence, as from apoplexy, hanging, drowning, or suffocation.
Two symptoms, excessive lividity of the body and early putrefaction, formerly supposed to indicate death by poison, are now known to frequently follow other modes of death.
A hiccough commenced; coldness of the extremities and lividity of the face followed, and continued three days before death.
Thus, when Britannicus died, an extraordinary lividity spread over the face of the corpse, which they attempted to conceal by painting the face.
The lividity of countenance, and the other concomitant symptoms, which presented themselves, gave decided indications of the morbid effects of this extraneous body.
For some days previous to his dissolution, there was increased lividity of countenance, and little or no action of heart.
Vibices and extensive ecchymoses of the surface are of much more grave import, and in cases where fatal sinking is threatened they may appear accompanying a purplish lividity of the countenance.
This complication is attended with increasing dyspnoea, decided lividity of the face and extremities, and great prostration.
Generally, however, it makes itself known by giving rise to rapid breathing and great lividity of the surface, but, as has already been said, both of these symptoms may exist in cases in which there is no chest complication.
Face swollen and livid, or calm and pale; lividity is most marked in eyelids, lips, ears, etc.
Insensibility, stertorous breathing, lividity of face and body, and death from asphyxia.
Rigor was complete, a light reddish post-mortem lividity noticeable, the face not markedly cyanotic.
Post-mortem lividity is a discoloration caused by the settling of the blood to whatever parts of the body are lowest when the heart action ceases.
When Ophelia perishes offstage you don't think of post-mortem lividityor foam on the mouth.
On lifting the body I found that rigor was complete, and post-mortem lividity noticeable in the face and hands.
A great muddy cloud, like to the belly of a hydra, hung over ocean, and in places its lividity adhered to the waves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lividity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: azure; blue; cyanosis; dullness; gray; grey; purple
