Lividity

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being livid; the peculiar darkness of color exhibited by bruised flesh.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being livid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being livid.
  • noun. A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers.
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  • noun. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
  • noun. a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored
  • Word Usage
    "She would have been dead for a number of hours, then there would have been post-mortem evidence of signs, such as lividity, discoloration after death, and stiffness after death, and those were not present."
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