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rigor mortis
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  • 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)
  • But whether due to rigor mortis or careless oversight, Rolf's mouth remained open—frozen on the threshold of a scream.†  (source)
  • Both men were locked in rigor mortis.†  (source)
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  • There's a protein in muscle plasma called myosin that coagulates in the muscle fiber and causes rigor mortis.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Clearly he had been dead a while because the body showed signs of rigor mortis.†
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