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.
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.
