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What is rigor mortis?

What is rigor mortis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Temporary stiffness of a body's muscles and joints following death.
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When they brought the bodies up, rigor mortis had set in on one women's body so strongly that they couldn't separate the mother from her child.
He wanted to shout, move, struggle, but his body remained frozen in rigor mortis.
I bedded down for this debate, Scotch in hand, expecting to be bored five ways to rigor mortis.
It was noted that the body showed rigor mortis and lividity in the extremities at the time the emergency response was initiated.
These transformations include an initial phase of rigor mortis, and a subsequent maturation phase of highly variable length.
And if it's in there a long period of time, by our material, it dies and goes into rigor mortis.

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