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(redirected from Livor mortis)

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If one person held his ankles and the other held him under his arms, there would be corresponding white interruptions of livor mortis in those spots.
If one person held his ankles and the other held him under his arms, there would be corresponding white interruptions of livor mortis in those spots.
A whole book (2) has been written covering various parameters--such as livor mortis (the pooling of the blood in the dependent portions of the body after death), rigor mortis (stiffening of the body), the temperature of the body when found, potassium levels in the vitreous humor (the eye fluid) and a whole host of other factors--none of which give hard-and-fast rules for determining the time since death.
 
 
 
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