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Temporary stiffness of the body's muscles and joints following death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: death-stiffness, rigor
Antonyms: none provided
To stiffen the muscles and joints with, or as if with, rigor mortis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification
temporary stiffness of joints and muscular rigidity occurring after death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: physical condition, physiological state, physiological condition
Learned borrowing from New Latin rigor mortis (literally “stiffness of death”). First attested in 1842.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
屍僵 /尸僵
(shījiāng)
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Danish:
dødsstivhed
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Dutch:
lijkstijfheid
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Egyptian:
M22-M22-n:n-nw-W-A7
(nnw)
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Finnish:
kuolonkankeus
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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French:
rigidité cadavérique
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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French:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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German:
Totenstarre
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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German:
Leichenstarre
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Greek:
νεκρική ακαμψία
(nekrikí akampsía)
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Hungarian:
hullamerevség
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Indonesian:
kaku mayat
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Indonesian:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Italian:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Japanese:
死後硬直
(shigo kōchoku)
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Malay:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Malay:
kekejuran mayat
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Persian:
جمود نعشی
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Polish:
stężenie pośmiertne
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Portuguese:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Portuguese:
rigidez cadavérica
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Romanian:
rigiditate cadaverică
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Russian:
тру́пное окочене́ние
(trúpnoje okočenénije)
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Spanish:
rigor mortis
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Spanish:
rigidez cadavérica
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Swedish:
likstelhet
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Turkish:
ölü katılığı
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
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Turkish:
ölüm katılığı
— temporary stiffness of the body following death
