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MeSH Heading: Rigor Mortis
Tree Number(s): C23.550.260.224.617.839
Unique ID: D012298
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012298
Scope Note: Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days.
Previous Indexing: Death (1966-1969)
Public MeSH Note: 70; was see under DEATH 1963-69
Online Note: search DEATH 1966-69
History Note: 70; was see under DEATH 1963-69
Date Established: 1970/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2002/07/03

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Rigor Mortis MeSH Descriptor Data 2023