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Definition of Lividities
1. lividity [n] - See also: lividity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lividities
Literary usage of Lividities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Gazette (1851)
"Of these, 71) had their scats on dependent, and 29 on non-dependent parts.
To the former belonged 2(> lividities of the posterior aspect of the trunk, ..."
2. Lectures on medical jurisprudence by Francis Ogston (1878)
"In order to avoid the error of confounding the different appearances which have
been classed together under the common name of lividities by medico-legal ..."
3. A System of Legal Medicine by Allan McLane Hamilton, Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1894)
"Neither have I observed on the non-dependent portions of the body any considerable
patches which in character and si/e could be considered as lividities ..."
4. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1882)
"These lividities may be found at times on the legs and feet of aged persons and
of those ... The cause of internal lividities is the same as of external, ..."
5. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Hugh L Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D Meigs, Benjamin Hornor Coates, R La Roche (1831)
"Among the changes which the skin undergoes after inhumation, M. Orfila has not,
it will he perceived, comprised cadaveric lividities, welts, or ecchymoses. ..."
6. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson (1883)
"On the body were stains of blood and cadaveric lividities. The blood stains were
in the nape of the ... There were lividities on the right leg and forearm. ..."
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