livor mortis
Noun
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Noun
livor mortis (uncountable)
- A settling of the blood in the lower portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin, typically occurring after death.
- hypostasis
- lividity (i.e. postmortem lividity)
- suggillation
- French: lividités cadavériques
- German: Totenfleck, Leichenfleck
- Russian: тру́пные пя́тна
- Spanish: livor mortis
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