| postmortem hypostasis | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pulmonary hypostasis | Hydrostatic congestion of the lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hypostasis | 1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing. 2. Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Council of Alexandria (a.d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. 3. <chemistry> Principle; an element; used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies. 4. <chemistry> That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment. Origin: L, fr. Gr. Subsistence, substance, fr. To stand under; under + to stand, middle voice of to cause to stand. (04 Mar 1998) |
| postmortem | 1. After death; as, postmortem rigidity. Pertaining to or occurring during the period after death. 2. Colloquialism for autopsy. Postmortem examination, an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy. Origin: post-+ L. Acc. Case of mors (mort-), death (21 Jun 2000) |
| postmortem changes | Changes that occur in bodies after death. (12 Dec 1998) |
| postmortem clot | A clot formed in the heart or great vessels after death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem delivery | Extraction of the foetus after the death of its mother. Synonym: perimortem delivery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem examination | <procedure> A surgical procedure, postmortem, which involves the examination of body tissues, often to determine cause of death. (02 Jan 1998) |
| postmortem livedo | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem lividity | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem pustule | An obsolete term for an ulcer, usually on the knuckle, resulting from infection during a dissection or the performance of an autopsy. Spongiform pustule of Kogoj, an epidermal pustule formed by infiltration of neutrophils into necrotic epidermis in which the cell walls persist as a spongelike network; seen in pustular psoriasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem rigidity | Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days. (12 Dec 1998) |
| postmortem suggillation | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem thrombus | A clot formed within the heart or in a blood vessel after death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem tubercle | postmortem wart |