How to Use rigor mortis in a Sentence

rigor mortis

noun

• The body showed signs of rigor mortis, the department said.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• The patient was showing signs of rigor mortis by the time staff members were aware that the patient had died.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
• By then, the animal's body had entered a state of rigor mortis.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• The story, Palmer writes, goes that rigor mortis had already set in, so the woman’s body couldn’t be stretched out for burial.
  — Amy McRary, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• And her limbs were stiff and would not extend, as if affected by rigor mortis.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• No-jime can delay rigor mortis for an hour, standard ikejime for about eight hours and shinkei-jime for up to 24 hours.
  — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• The process of rigor mortis can be accelerated by the flu.
  — Robert Moore, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2019
• Famously known as the stiffening of a corpse, rigor mortis is brought on more by what the body can no longer do rather than something the body is doing.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2013
• The first few stages — algor mortis, livor mortis, and rigor mortis — would still take place, Connor says.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2021
• Amid the war dead lies a horse on its back, presumably in a state of rigor mortis but better resembling a house pet in need of a belly rub.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Within a minute or two someone mentioned that rigor mortis had already set in and efforts to revive the man were stopped.
  — Josh Kovner, courant.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• His arms are locked at 90-degree angles at the elbow from rigor mortis and his stomach is bloated.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• Near a dirt path, county officials found the animal, cold and stiff from rigor mortis.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Then, her body slides off of the wall and rigor mortis rears its ugly head, and Jackie’s ear falls off, traumatizing Shauna.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
• Kornfeld told investigators that Prince was still warm to the touch when he was found, but that rigor mortis had begun to set in.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
• While all that admirably gifts the picture with a bright effervescence, its blights dull its impact, leading to a slight case of rigor mortis.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 1 Dec. 2022
• To delay rigor mortis for up to a few days, fish can be deep-frozen immediately after they are caught.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014
• Serna was found dead in the same position, and rigor mortis had already begun to set in when paramedics arrived an hour later, the report said.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
• Fresh is best About six hours after the fish is killed a phenomenon common to all animals, rigor mortis, sets in.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014
• Flight staff once moved a body into a lavatory for safe keeping only to find that the corpse, stiffened by rigor mortis, got stuck behind the bathroom door.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 12 May 2021
• Andrew Kornfeld told investigators that Prince was still warm to the touch when he was found, but that rigor mortis had begun to set in.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2018
• During a roughly three-hour process, the embalmer washes the body with a disinfectant solution and massages and moves the limbs to loosen the stiffness from rigor mortis.
  — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• Just a shame that the patient already had lapsed into early-onset rigor mortis prior to his arrival at the start of January.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• The police officer initially wrote that Slater's body was in rigor mortis.
  — Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2021
• They were probably severed after rigor mortis–a tightening of the tendons in the hours after death–had passed, Gresky argues.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023
• That black-and-white image (a still or rigor mortis?) was a technological breakthrough.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
• On Tuesday, in his postmortem for a season that entered rigor mortis five weeks ago, Rangers general manager Jon Daniels laid out in some detail a plan for the future.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
• The researchers observed female European common frogs stretching their arms and legs straight from the body, in a way that could appear similar to rigor mortis, Dittrich said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Running a needle threaded with wire down the fish’s spine, Yokota disables the central nervous system, which delays rigor mortis.
  — April Fulton, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Jan. 2018
• During rigor mortis calcium ions of the proteins embedded in the muscle fibers are released, causing the muscle fibers to contract and become stiff.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014

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