The University of Chicago Header Logo

Rigor Mortis

"Rigor Mortis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rigor Mortis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rigor Mortis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_