1) BBC Radio comedy programme
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[radio] Rigor Mortis is a BBC Radio 4 black comedy set in the pathology department at an NHS hospital. It centers around the working lives of the pathologists and attendant staff who work in the department. ==Themes== Much of the humour of the show springs from the characters` varying views on death and their contrasting beliefs about the r...
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Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor `stiffness`, mortis `of death`) is one of the recognizable signs of death, caused by chemical changes in the muscles after death, causing the limbs of the corpse to become stiff and difficult to move or manipulate. In humans, it commences after about three to four hours, reaches maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and ...
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(from the article `meat processing`) When the energy reserves are depleted, the myofibrillar proteins, actin and myosin, lose their extendability, and the muscles become stiff. This ...
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Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Stiffening ensuing soon after death.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. stiffening of the body, 1-7 hours after death, from hardening of the muscular tissues as a consequence of the coagulation of the myosinogen and paramyosinogen; it disappears after 1-6 days or when decomposition begins. Synonyms: cadaveric rigidity, postmortem rigidity
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Rigor mortis: Literally, the stiffness of death. The rigidity of a body after death. Rigor mortis is a good example of a Latin term (one in this case that was coined in the 19th century) remaining intact in contemporary medical usage (and crime writing). Rigor mortis is due to a biochemical change in the muscles that occurs several hours after deat...
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(rig;or mor;tis) The stiffening of a dead body due to the depletion of ATP and the production of rigor complexes between actin and myosin in muscles.
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[
n] - temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death 2. [n] - muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and last for about 4 days
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rigor mortis 1. Stiffness of death; the stiffening of the muscles that occurs several hours after someone dies. 2. Stiffening of the body, from 1 to 7 hours after death, from hardening of the muscular tissues as a result of the coagulation of the myosinogen and paramyosinogen. It disappears after 1 to 5 or 6 days, or when decomposition begins.
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the stiffness that occurs in the body after death
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noun muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and last for about 4 days
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stiffness following death
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