✦ LIBER ✦
Studies on Rigor Mortis. Part II. Qualitative observations on the post mortem shortening of muscles
✍ Scribed by Smith, R. Dale
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1950
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 507 KB
- Volume
- 108
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-276X
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✦ Synopsis
T W O FIGURES
The changes occurring in muscles after death have been of general interest for some time but there is little agreement as to the sequence of events within the fiber during the development of rigor mortis. Most authors indicate that the muscles stiffen, but the relationship of this to post mortem shortening is not entirely clear. Since it is well known that when a living muscle contracts it not only shortens but also becomes hard, it becomes difficult to separate the hardness of