Sentences with phrase «rigor mortis in»

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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.»

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

Has the story ever been replicated in the past 2000 years that a body in full rigor mortis, that would have bloated and begun losing fluids, with the unmistakable stench of death and the flesh being consumed by maggots; has ever been recorded that came back to life as we know it?

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.

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.

But then rigor mortis happens in your chest.

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).

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.

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.

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.»

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

Conversely, his body would be completely stiff, particularly his limbs, if he had died and rigor mortis had set in.

As the film crossfades into a scene wherein all the people are now dead, bodies artfully arranged in rigor mortis, Hayek's character wipes away tears from the protagonist's face and begins to dance.

The debate has failed because «minds are settled» — sides are entrenched, lines between the science and the politics are blurred, the issues have not been characterized much less resolved, and rigor mortis has set in.

In the days leading up to his wife's murder, Robert James Petrick used Google to search the terms «body decomposition,» «rigor mortis,» «neck» and «break.»