rigor mortis
Example Sentences
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“This implies they were put there before rigor mortis set in or after it had passed.”
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
Amid the war dead lies a horse on its back, presumably in a state of rigor mortis but better resembling a house pet in need of a belly rub.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2023
The paramedics were called into a room where the lead nurse was performing CPR on a dead man with rigor mortis.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2023
One who has worked in places including Kosovo and Rwanda on war crimes investigations, who did not want to be named, told the BBC that by four days rigor mortis has "usually subsided".
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2022
Once removed from its pore, the hair immediately stiffened in rapid rigor mortis.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
