Meaning of rigor mortis | Babel Free

Definitions

Temporary stiffness of the body's muscles and joints following death.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Such are the principal phenomena observed during that form of contraction which I conceive to be analogous to the rigor mortis...”

“Then we carried in poor Austin from the yard. His muscles were set as hard as a board in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.”

“[…]an unpublished writer who, for all his ambition and flashes of talent, had not been trained in the rigours (nor rigor mortises, for that matter) of a university education.”

“Its wood can neither be carved nor used for the making of the furniture because of the volatility of those characteristics of the nutrients it has sucked which come from innumerable varieties of rigor mortises.”

“Instead, Tender Buttons destabilizes persistent syntactic arrangements and lexical rigor mortises to assert that “certainly glittering is handsome and convincing,” glittering a radiant process of flux and variance.”

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