Sentences with phrase «rigor mortis»

The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, is the first discovery of rigor mortis in worms and provides new insight into the process of «organismal» death.

«Discovering rigor mortis in worms is exciting as it highlights a key step in the chain of events leading from healthy adulthood to death from old age.

There are many ways I'd rather start my day than removing a dead blue tongue lizard — rigid with rigor mortis with its intestines hanging out — from beneath the trampoline in my backyard.

While working at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, Faux collaborated with Kevin Padian, a professor of integrative biology and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, to make her argument: Brain injury during death, not later rigor mortis, explains the typical look of dino fossils.

I've never really thought about a zombie's genitals... But, now that we're talking about it, once rigor mortis sets in, wouldn't...

Some wilt straight into rigor mortis right on our front stoop, fresh from the local nursery.

If they have no criticism of the status quo, probably ecclesiastical rigor mortis has set in.

Traditionally, medical examiners use body temperature and physical signs such as rigor mortis to determine time of death.

Conventional wisdom held that the dead dinos» pose was struck when the muscles contracted under rigor mortis or because the dinos» tendons and ligaments had dried up, suggesting that their bodies had been exposed to the sun for a long time.

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.

But then rigor mortis happens in your chest.

The relief felt afterhaving a large bowel movement B. Having an orgasm (aka «cumming») C. Cardiac arrhythmia D. Rigor mortis

Hazel and company's investigation finds a common feature of the murder scenes: victims» faces have all been manipulated to endure rigor mortis in a very deliberate fashion, something that would require great patience from the apparent psychopath at large.

hm, have read some good things about rigor mortis.

Manny can't remember anything about his life, or indeed about life in general, but he's not without his uses: Per the title, this talking corpse becomes an undead tool kit — his erratic erection functioning like a compass, his mouth and lungs a projectile device, his stiff limbs handily spring - loaded through rigor mortis.

The reformers want «rigor» — short for rigor mortis.

When someone's passing doesn't open up a spot for a newcomer, you know rigor mortis has set in on the funny pages!

Rigor mortis looks painful!

Their hands were stiff with rigor mortis when the prints were made.

a) Pace like a trapped jungle cat while everyone else clearly moves in slow motion, making the onset of rigor mortis seem quicker by comparison?

From: Lawrie's Meat Science by R. A. Lawrie, David Ledward, p 92, (23 Jan 2014) A much delayed onset of rigor mortis has been observed in the muscle of the whale (Marsh, 1952b).

But they are not really suitable: «They are usually stiff with rigor mortis, and you don't get proper withdrawal of blood from the tail.

And his father pitched over his desk, his face strained, his eyelids and jaw tense, rigor mortis setting in.

c) Start planning a wake for the individual on the copier, who has obviously gone into rigor mortis?

«Rigor mortis in worms offers new insight into death.»

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!

These «Remote Mind Control» weapons, according to the diagrams in the file, are capable of everything from «forced memory blanking» to «sudden violent itching inside eyelids» to «wild flailing» followed by «rigor mortis.»

Most communities lurch between decay and rigor mortis and when they veer too far they die.

Think of rigor mortis.

Blue line commuters repairing home Aug. 3 around 5:30 p.m. had to step over an ashen man — apparently in the early stages of rigor mortis — blocking the exit of the Division L stop.

The muscles stiffen — everybody has heard of rigor mortis — and the body begins to cool by about 0.8 degree Celsius per hour or so.

Rigor mortis isn't very precise over extended periods, and the presence of telltale insects varies by region.

«What really surprised us at first was that rigor mortis in worms begins while they are still alive.

In humans, rigor mortis (or stiffness of death) occurs sometime after death, and is followed by necrotic degeneration where the muscles become soft again.

This happens first in muscle, leading to muscle hypercontraction and rigor mortis, and then spreads to the intestine, where it triggers a wave of blue death fluorescence that renders visible the passage of death through the organism.

Many animal fossils appear in a head - thrown - back position called the «dead - bird» pose, which paleontologists traditionally attribute to rigor mortis, desiccation of the carcass, or the shifting of bones by water currents.

If you've ever tried to dress a seal with rigor mortis, you'll understand.

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.

This becomes even more important if you are an office worker, as sitting for long periods causes tight fascia and muscles to be in a rigor mortis like state.

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.

Most such movies carry the stench of rigor mortis, but Experimenter is alive and alert from its first moment.

Diane Ravitch, the education historian, associates the word rigor with «rigor mortis» and fears the curriculum becomes narrow, rigid and deadly dull as teachers attempt to cover more topics.

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It's 4 a.m., and Cass Seltzer is standing on Weeks Bridge, the graceful arc that spans the Charles River near Harvard University, staring down at the river below, which is in the rigor mortis of late February in New England.

He describes a particularly slow train as «rigor mortis with scenery» and observes that a town in which he finds no charm was «bombed heavily during the Second World War, though perhaps not quite heavily enough.»