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rigor mortises

rigor mortises is the plural of rigor mortis.

rigor mortises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rigor mortis.

Meaning of rigor mortis

Noun

rigor mortis (usually uncountable, plural rigor mortises)

  1. (usually) Temporary stiffness of the body's muscles and joints following death.
    • Such are the principal phenomena observed during that form of contraction which I conceive to be analogous to the rigor mortis...1840, Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 491

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Questions about rigor mortises

What is rigor mortises the plural of?
Rigor mortises is the plural of rigor mortis.

Words near rigor mortises in the dictionary

  1. rigols
  2. rigor
  3. rigor caloris
  4. rigor mortis
  5. rigor mortised
  6. rigor mortises
  7. rigor mortising
  8. rigored
  9. rigorisation
  10. rigorise
  11. rigorism

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