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Abstract
Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days.
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- Mortis, Rigor
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
70; was see under DEATH 1963-69
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- Death (1966-1969)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Rigor Mortis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012298. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012298
- Rigor Mortis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigor_mortis
- Rigor Mortis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274095