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... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Death > Cadaver > Postmortem Changes > Rigor Mortis

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Rigor Mortis  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days.

History note

  • 70; was see under DEATH 1963-69

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012298

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