| 词汇 | rigor mortis |
| 词源 | rigor mortis. Rigor mortis refers to the muscular stiffening after death. The term, which came into English about 1830, de- rives from the Latin words meaning “stiffness of death.” The American slang word stiff for a corpse also comes from this source. |
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