Sentences with phrase «with rigor mortis»

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

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

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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?

And historically it sets the English empire apart from the Catholic Spanish and French empires, which were born with a kind of institutional rigor mortis that confused forms with godliness and made adaptation next to impossible.

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.

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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.»