Cadaveric spasm
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cadaveric-spasm-173-11637830
title:
Cadaveric spasm
text:
Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. Cadaveric spasm can be distinguished from rigor mortis as the former is a stronger stiffening of the muscles that cannot be easily undone, while rigor mortis can. The cause is unknown but is usually associated with violent deaths under extreme physical cir
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Postmortem stiffening of a muscle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaveric_spasm
date created:
2006-07-30T22:34:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T12:14:47Z
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