Livor mortis (Latin: līvor – "bluish color, bruise", mortis – "of death"), postmortem lividity (Latin: postmortem – "after death", lividity – "black and...

Look up rigor mortis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor "stiffness", and mortis "of death"), or postmortem rigidity, is the...

Pallor mortis (Latin: pallor "paleness", mortis "of death"), the first stage of death, is an after-death paleness that occurs in those with light/white...

Algor mortis (from Latin algor 'coldness', and mortis 'of death'), the third stage of death, is the change in body temperature post mortem, until the...

Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, and rigor mortis. This process references the breaking down of a body...

conclusive signs of death clear to a lay person are: algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, and putrefaction. The cardinal signs of death may refer to...

changes) include: Algor mortis: body cooling; Livor mortis: settling of blood in the lowest-placed parts of the body; Rigor mortis: stiffening of limbs....

reported along with other determining factors. Obvious decomposition Livor mortis (lividity), indicating that the body has been pulseless and in the same...

estimated. Some indicators that investigators use are rigor mortis, livor mortis, algor mortis, clouding of the corneas, state of decomposition, presence/absence...

Stages Pallor mortis Algor mortis Rigor mortis Livor mortis Putrefaction Decomposition Skeletonization Fossilization Preservation Cryopreservation Cryonics...