Usage of "lividity" | TermGallery

Portuguese

Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

Usage of lividity in English

Blanching only occurs for a matter of hours after lividity first develops. 
 Death du Jour 

Post mortem, cadaveric lividity is well marked, especially in nose, lips, ears, etc. 
 Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology 

He was simply beside her inside a breath, lividity raging in his expression. 
 Heart of stone 

She looked at it closer, mentally conjuring Allegra's similar lividity. 
 The cold room 

Prelim, twelve to fourteen hours based on temp and lividity. 
 Driving Heat 

And based on the postmortem lividity, I'd say the body was moved after death. 
 Back on murder 

Maximum lividity usually occurs within six to twelve hours. 
 206 Bones 

When Mors was done with the gelding, he pressed the carcass to test its lividity. 
 Watcher of the Dead 

There's rigor leaving her jaw and some decent lividity on the edges of her legs. 
 The cold room 

It created massive indentations in the skin, and once she died, the lividity settled in. 
 The cold room 

The imps in the pit would need turning or their hides could suffer dung lividity marks. 
 Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony 

This was past lividity, this was almost scarring. 
 The cold room 

They showed signs of lividity in the buttocks, thighs and feet, as if they'd been sitting. 
 In the hat: a novel of suspense 

I observed lividity, but still got blanching. 
 Bones of the Lost 

I can't even unfold her limbs to check for other wounds, trauma, defense marks, lividity, and so forth. 
 Frozen Heat 

Her hand reached toward me, eyes pleading, the bruises on her cheek glowing with lividity, and I . 
 Back on murder 

lividity

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Translations for lividity

Portuguese

Lividity through the time

Meanings of lividity in English