rigor caloris
English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
rigor caloris (uncountable)
- (biology) A form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50°C.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rigor caloris under rigor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)