Definitions for lividity
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lividitynoun

   a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored

2. lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasianoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lividitynoun

   The state or quality of being livid.

2. lividitynoun

   A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.

3. Etymology: From ; compare lividité.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lividitynoun

   Discolouration, as by a blow.

   Etymology: lividilé, French; from livid.

   The signs of a tendency to such a state, are darkness or lividity of the countenance. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

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1. lividity

   Livor mortis (Latin: līvor – "bluish color, bruise", mortis – "of death"), postmortem lividity (Latin: postmortem – "after death", lividity – "black and blue"), hypostasis (Greek: ὑπό, hypo, meaning "under, beneath"; στάσις, stasis, meaning "a standing") or suggillation, is the second stage of death and one of the signs of death. It is a settling of the blood in the lower, or dependent, portion of the body postmortem, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin. When the heart stops functioning and is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity. The blood travels faster in warmer conditions and slower in colder conditions. Livor mortis starts in 20–30 minutes, but is usually not observable by the human eye until two hours after death. The size of the patches increases in the next three to six hours, with maximum lividity occurring between eight and twelve hours after death. The blood pools into the interstitial tissues of the body. The intensity of the color depends upon the amount of reduced haemoglobin in the blood. The discoloration does not occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, in which capillaries are compressed.

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1. lividity

   Lividity, also known as livor mortis, refers to the purplish red discoloration of the skin that occurs when a person dies. It is caused by the settling or pooling of blood in the lower (dependent) portions of the body due to gravity, following the cessation of blood circulation. This phenomenon usually becomes visible between 20 minutes to 3 hours after death and can be used to estimate the time of death and whether a body has been moved postmortem.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lividitynoun

   the state or quality of being livid

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. lividit.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lividity in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lividity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lividity
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lividity
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lividity
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lividity
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lividity