lividity

/li-vid-i-tee/US // lɪˈvɪd ɪ ti //

鲜艳度,鲜艳程度,鲜艳,鲜艳性

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, pooling of blood due to congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc.: When the dead person is lying on their back, lividity will form on the buttocks, back, or backs of the legs.
- : a grayish or ashen appearance of the face; pallor: The traditional ghost image usually involves a certain paleness of the face—a corpselike lividity.
- : furious anger: When the generator they’d ordered arrived late and then failed to work, her lividity knew no bounds.
- : a reddish appearance of the face, as from strong emotion or embarrassment: I was on the shore with my parents, watching the sky flush scarlet with a hue like lividity rising to an angry face.

For some days previous to his dissolution, there was increased lividity of countenance, and little or no action of heart.
A hiccough commenced; coldness of the extremities and lividity of the face followed, and continued three days before death.
The sky was leaden, and there was a peculiar and almost sinister lividity in the wan light of the afternoon.
The lividity, yes; but one could think of that as simply the shadow of death.
Post-mortem discoloration, or post-mortem lividity, often appears during the first contact.