At the expiration of thirty-three days the cell was opened, and the fakir was found just where he was placed, but with a death-like appearance, the limbs having become stiff as in rigor mortis.
None of the usual signs of dissolution have appeared; the face still retains its colour, andrigor mortis has not yet set in.
Rigor mortis must be distinguished from cadaveric spasm or the death clutch; in the former, articles in the hands are readily removable, in the latter this is not the case.
He should notice the position and temperature of the body, the condition of rigor mortis, marks of violence, appearance of lips and mouth.
In tetanic spasm the limbs when bent return to their former position; not so in rigor mortis.
Rigor mortis is very rapid in its onset and transient.
Rigor mortis is not a sign of death, as there is rigidity of the muscles following apparent death, as in cases of asphyxia and trance.
Rigor mortis is the stiffening condition which occurs on the body after death.
The rigor that appears in the muscles after somatic death is designated usually as rigor mortis, since its occurrence explains the death stiffening in the cadaver.
Rigor mortis is generally not well developed, and is of short duration.
Rigor mortis is generally more marked and more prolonged than after {261} typhus.
If the rigidity of rigor mortis after it is once complete is overcome, as in bending an arm, it never returns; but if incomplete it may return.
These conditions materially influence the rapidity of cooling and the onset of rigor mortis.
There is little danger of contusion if the blow be inflicted on a dead body after the loss of body heat and the beginning of rigor mortis.
If the body is not laid out immediately, probably it is stiffened by the rigor mortis.
In the two women I have mentioned the rigor mortis was much less than is usual in cases of death from natural disease.
There is but little difference from ordinary cases of convulsive death in the time at which the rigor mortiscomes on.
After death there was an interval of flaccidity, after which rigidity commenced, more than if it had been occasioned by the rigor mortis.
If the body is not laid out immediately, is it not stiffened by the rigor mortis?
After death there was an interval of flaccidity, after which rigidity commenced, more than if it had been occasioned by the usual rigor mortis.
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