Livor mortis (Latin: livor—`bluish color,` mortis—`of death`), postmortem lividity (Latin: postmortem—`after death`, lividity—`black and blue`), hypostasis (Greek: hypo, meaning `under, beneath`; stasis, meaning `a standing`) or suggillation, is one of the signs of death. Livor mortis is a settling of the blood in the lower (de...