livor mortis , also: postmortem lividity , also: hypostasis

"Livor mortis could have happened within half an hour.

Give me a ring and we'll have a chat about livor mortis."

The likely cause was livor mortis, producing red and purple streaks under the child's skin.

The blood sinks down into the lower parts (due to gravity) of the body creating livor mortis.

Her skin was bright pink from cold livor mortis, typical in frozen bodies or people who have died of exposure.

Contusions and suffusion were purple-blue and livor mortis was pink.

Livor mortis had shifted to the back of the head, which meant blood could have seeped into the soft tissue of the scalp.

If the body is moved after death, but before rigor mortis begins, forensic techniques such as Livor mortis can be applied.

Another noteworthy transient condition is livor mortis, the purplish pooling of blood within the body after the heart has stopped beating.

Livor mortis starts 20 minutes to 3 hours after death and is congealed in the capillaries in 4 to 5 hours.

Coroners can use the presence or absence of livor mortis as a means of determining an approximate time of death.

Some theories attribute the skin problems to a combination of preexisting conditions and routine postmortem effects like livor mortis, although there is no clear consensus.

Hypostasis (medicine), Livor mortis

Scarpetta pointsout the livor mortis pattern, a reddish-purple discoloration caused by noncirculating blood settling due to gravity.

Livor Mortis: Gravitational Blood Pooling - 3:36

Livor mortis is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin.

He lay with arms limp at his sides, both hands swollen and purplish, like bruise-colored gloves, from the combination of tight bindings and livor mortis.

Identify and record discrepancies between the body and the scene (e.g., rigor mortis, livor mortis and body temperature).

Benno was talking pretty fast, but I think he said something about how the livor mortis pattern on her backside suggests that she died right where she was found."

"When the M.E. saw him at ten A.M.," said Korsak, "livor mortis was fixed, and he was in full rigor.

They all noted that rigor mortis had already set in as well as the discoloration of the body caused by the blood's settling due to gravity, which is termed lividity, or livor mortis.

Since blood is no longer being pumped through the body it drains to the dependent portions of the body, under gravity, creating an overall bluish-purple discolouration termed livor mortis or, more commonly, lividity.

Early post-mortem changes, used by pathologists as medical markers for early post-mortem interval estimations, have been described by Goff and include livor mortis, rigor mortis and algor mortis.

The presence of livor mortis is also an indication of when it would be futile to begin CPR, or when it would be ineffective to continue if it is in progress.

Livor mortis had already set in, blood draining to the lowest points of her body, leaving the fronts of her bare legs, one side of each bare arm, and her face ghastly pale.