rigor mortisin a sentence
- Vittoria had feared the corpse's mouth might be clenched tight with rigor mortis and that she would have to suggest breaking the jaw to see the tongue.† (source)
- Once removed from its pore, the hair immediately stiffened in rapid rigor mortis.† (source)
- According to this chart, that's about one point above rigor mortis.† (source)
- Rigor mortis was setting in.† (source)
- It's a good thing he didn't try that yesterday when I had rigor mortis of the head.† (source)
- It would not be had to eat with a little lime or with lemon or with salt, "How do you feel, hand?" he asked the cramped hand that was almost as stiff as rigor mortis.† (source)
- Both men were locked in rigor mortis.† (source)
- But whether due to rigor mortis or careless oversight, Rolf's mouth remained open—frozen on the threshold of a scream.† (source)
- Both hands, big fat things like rows of kielbasa, grabbed the boy's fragile neck and locked into rigor mortis, though the bandsman remained very much alive and, apparently, healthy.† (source)
- Clearly he had been dead a while because the body showed signs of rigor mortis.
- There's a protein in muscle plasma called myosin that coagulates in the muscle fiber and causes rigor mortis.† (source)
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- The living tissue did not permit chemical analysis; the very changes that brought about rigor mortis were enough to make all such experimentation futile.† (source)
- When used in its pathological sense (not only in the Latin form of /rigor mortis/, but as an English word) it drops the /u/; in all other senses it retains the /u/.† (source)
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