True about cadaveric spasm :
A. Develops immediately after death
B. May develop hours after death
C. Develops only in facial muscles
D. Involves individual/small group of muscles
E. Whole body is never affected.
A. Develops immediately after death
B. May develop hours after death
C. Develops only in facial muscles
D. Involves individual/small group of muscles
E. Whole body is never affected.
Ans. (A) Develops immediately after
death; (D) Involves individual/small group of muscles :
• Cadaveric spasm is the stiffening ofmuscles immediately after death without being preceded by a stage of primary’ relaxation. Itcommonly involves groups of muscles such as forearmand hands. Butin some cases, when there has beenextreme nervous tension, the whole bodymay be affected.
• Rigor Mortis develop hours (2-3) after death, involve both voluntary and involuntory muscles, occur in all deaths, muscle contraction is less marked andonlymoderate force required to break it.
• Cadaveric spasm is the stiffening ofmuscles immediately after death without being preceded by a stage of primary’ relaxation. Itcommonly involves groups of muscles such as forearmand hands. Butin some cases, when there has beenextreme nervous tension, the whole bodymay be affected.
• Rigor Mortis develop hours (2-3) after death, involve both voluntary and involuntory muscles, occur in all deaths, muscle contraction is less marked andonlymoderate force required to break it.
