English Explanatory Dictionary

cadaveric spasm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis.

Word forms

cadaveric spasm cadaveric spasms
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