Sentences with phrase «for rigor mortis»
The reformers want «rigor» — short for rigor mortis.
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Once you are embalmed, meaning your blood has been drained, rigor mortis has set in, and your brain and other organs have been deprived of oxygen for 48 hours you ain't getting back up off that table!
A dying worm experiences rigor mortis early in the death process, rather than after the main event as it is for humans, according to a new study by an international team of scientists at UCL and Washington University.
No adequate explanation of this phenomenon has yet been given; but the low basal metabolic rate of whale muscle (Benedict, 1958), in combination with the high content of oxymyoglobin in vivo (cf 4.3.1), may permit aerobic metabolism to continue slowly for some time after the death of the animal, whereby ATP levels can be maintained sufficiently to delay the union of actin and myosin in rigor mortis.
When, in a rushed stretch of screen time, Maria slides from diagnosis to rigor mortis, her voiceover continues for a few reflective beyond - the - grave pronouncements before fading away entirely.
It's the beginning of the»60s, and for Truman and his friends, rigor mortis is already encroaching.
When someone's passing doesn't open up a spot for a newcomer, you know rigor mortis has set in on the funny pages!